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Docetæ. Heretics in the early Church. They denied the reality of the human form and nature of Jesus Christ, and consequently the mystery of His Incarnation. The Docetæ, or Phantasiasts, as they were also called, granted to Christ only a seeming body and maintained that His sufferings and death were only apparent.