Azymites (Gr. a, not, and . leaven), a polemical term, applied to the western church by the eastern or Greek branch. About 1025 a controversy sprung up as to the kind of bread that ought to be used in the eucharist. The Latin church maintained that unleavened bread only was allowable, since, as they affirmed, the Lord's last supper having been held on the day before the Hebrew passover, unleavened bread was the only kind procurable. The Greek church endeavored to prove that the last supper did not take place on the day before the pass-over, and consequently that unleavened bread could not be had; moreover, they charged that the use of unleavened bread was a relic of Judaism. The term azymites was at first used as one of reproach, but was adopted as honorable by those to whom it was applied. The controversy raged long and high, the parties calling themselves azymites and prozymites, anti-leaveners and pro-leaveners.