[mar-uh-nahyt] 
| a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch. |
| Mar·o·nite (mār'ə-nīt') n. A member of a Christian Uniat church, chiefly of Lebanon, the liturgy of which is written in Syriac. [Medieval Latin marōnīta, after Maro, fourth-century A.D. Syrian religious leader.] Mar'o·nite' adj. |
