A name applied in the religious controversies of the 6th
century, by the heretical Jacobites, to the adherents of the
orthodox church. It signified that they were imperialists, or
royalists, taking their doctrines from the sovereign power.
_H. F. Tozer,
The Church and the Eastern Empire,
chapter 5._
MELDÆ, The.
A tribe in ancient Gaul which was established in the north of
the modern French department of the Seine-et-Marne and in a
small part of the department of the Oise.
_Napoleon III.,
History of Cæsar,
book 3, chapter 2, footnote (volume 2)._