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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 237 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AQUARII , a name given to the Christians who substituted See also:

water for See also:wine in the See also:Eucharist. They were not a See also:sect, for we find the practice widely in See also:vogue at an See also:early See also:time, even among the orthodox. In See also:Greek they were called Hydroparastatae, or those who offer water. See also:Theodosius, in his persecuting See also:edict of 382, classes them as a See also:special sect with the Manicheans, who also eschewed wine. See EUCHARIST.

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