Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Therapeutae \Ther`a*peu"t[ae]\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? (pl. ?)
   an attendant, servant, physician. See {Therapeutic}.] (Eccl.
   Hist.)
   A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt
   in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are described in a
   work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of
   which are now much discredited.