prozymite

Etymology

pro- +‎ zymo- +‎ -ite

Noun

prozymite (plural prozymites)

1. (Christianity, historical, pejorative) One who administers the eucharist with leavened bread; used pejoratively by those of the Latin church referring to the Greek.
   • 1867, Artaud de Montor, The Lives and Times of the Roman Pontiffs: From St. Peter to Pius IX:

     Whosever shall obstinately blame the faith of the Holy See of Rome and its sacrifices, let him be anathema, and let him not be deemed Catholic, but a prozymite heretic, that is to say, Defender of the Leaven.

   • 1989, Colin Morris, The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250:

     The inclusion not only of Cerularius, but of all his followers, and the denunciation of the Greeks as prozymite heretics, does look like a condemnation of the whole Byzantine church until it should change its practices.

   • 2014, Annelou van Gijn, Exploring and Explaining Diversity in Agricultural Technology:

     For example, Greeks using leavened bread for the consecration, were in opposition with the unleavened bread of the Latin Church, and stigmatised as fermentarians or prozymites.