a. and sb. Ch. Hist. One of a heretical sect in the 2nd century who followed the errors of Montanus; a Montanist; so called because they originated in Phrygia.
1585–7. Rogers, 39 Art., 65. The … Cataphrygians … who held how Christ not in body but in soul ascended into heaven.
1750. Lardner, Wks. (1838), III. 90.
