a sect of heretics who rose in Armenia in the seventh century. The word is formed of the Armenian chazus, "cross." They are also called staurolatres, which in Greek signifies the same as Chazinzarians in Armenian, viz. adorers of the cross; they being charged with paying adoration to the cross alone. In other respects they were Nestorians; and admitted two persons in Jesus Christ: Nicephorus ascribes other singularities to them; particularly their holding an annual feast in memory of the dog of their false prophet Sergius, which they called Charizmazibarizes.