in church history, a sect, towards the close of the 4th century, denominated from a little cake, called by the Greeks κολλυβος, collyridia, which they offered to the Virgin Mary.

This sect, it seems, consisted chiefly of Arabian women, who out of an extravagance of devotion to the Virgin, met on a certain day in the year, to celebrate a solemn feast, and to render divine honours to Mary as to a goddess, eating the cake which they offered in her name. St Epiphanius, who relates the history of this superstitious ceremony, ridicules it. They sprung up in opposition to the Antidio-Marianites.