DIMÆRITÆ, a name given to the Apollinarists, who at first held, that the Word only assumed a human body, without taking a reasonable soul like ours; but being at length convinced by formal texts of Scripture, they allowed, that he did assume a soul, but without understanding; the Word supplying the want of that faculty. From this way of separating the understanding from the soul, they became denominated dimæritæ, q. d. dividers, separators, of ἰδία, and ποικίλη I divide.