a name given to the followers of Julian of Halicarnassus, who taught, A.D. 519, that the body of Christ changed its nature and became incorruptible (ἀφθάρτος) from the moment of his conception, by the infusion of the divine nature. They were called also Docete and Phantasiaste, because their doctrine implied that the Aphtong sufferings of Christ were not real but only seeming (δοκεῖ).

This opinion was favoured by the Emperor Justinian, in whose reign it was agitated with great warmth.—(Mosheim, p. 237, Reid's edit.)