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( ἱóôüò , a mast of a ship, and ðïýò , a foot), a term applied to certain heretics, chiefly Eunomians, who baptized only the upper parts of the body as far as the breast, and this with the heels upward and the head downward ( ôïὺò ðüäáò ἄíù , êáὶ ôὴí êåöáëὴí êÜôù ). Hence the name Histopedes, orPederecti. See Epiphanius, Haeres. c. 79; Bingham, Orig. Eccles. bk. 40, chap. 11:§ 4.