Christian heretics in the second century, who affirmed that Christ received a body from the four elements, which at his death he rendered back to the world, and so ascended into heaven without a body.

APPELLA, among physicians, a name given to those whose prepuce is either wanting or shrunk, so that it can no longer cover the glans. Many authors have supposed this sense of the word Apella warranted from the passage in Horace, credat Judaeus Apella non ego. But, according to Salmatius and others, Apella is the proper name of a certain Jew, and not an adjective signifying circumcised.