Agapemonides

• Agapemones: a 19th Century religious community which practised "agapes", or "love-feasts"
  • Agapemone: A sect of men and women, adherents of Henry James Prince (1811-1899), curate of Charlynch, Somerset, and his rector Samuel Starky (hence they were sometimes called Starkyites). These zealots founded an Agapemone or Abode of Love at Spaxton in 1849, living on a common fund, but their licentious conduct led to trouble with authority. After 1890 the movement revived as the "Children of the Resurrection" under Smyth-Pigott, who was unfrocked in 1909 – E. C. Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
  • Agape: a love feast (Greek: agape, love); the early Christians held a love-feast in conjunction with the Lord's Supper when the rich provided food for the poor. Eventually they became a scandal and were condemned by the Council of Carthage, 397. Agape was the mother of Priamond, Diamond, Triamond and Cambina in Spenser's Faerie Queene (4:2:4188) – E. C. Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

• agapemone: a free-love institution

• Gr agapemonides: (hypothetical) sons of a loved one

• agape: with gaping mouth