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| Mel·kite [ mél kt ] (plural Mel·kites) or Mel·chite [ mél kt ] (plural Mel·chites) |
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member of Uniat church: a member of any of several Christian churches in North Africa and Southwest Asia that use the Greek Orthodox liturgy but acknowledge the authority of the Roman Catholic Pope
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| [Early 17th century. Via ecclesiastical Latin< Byzantine Greek Melkhitai "Melkites" < Syriac malkāyê "royalists" < malkā "king"] |
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