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heterodox, a. and n.|ˈhɛtərədɒks|
[ad. Gr. ἑτερόδοξ-ος of another opinion, holding opinions other than the right, f. ἑτερο- hetero- + δόξα opinion.]
A. adj.
1. Of doctrines, opinions, etc.: Not in accordance with established doctrines or opinions, or those generally recognized as right or ‘orthodox’:
a. orig. in religion and theology.
1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 354 Christ's locall descending to hell, and divers others heterodoxe doctrines. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 294, I shall first shew you the Heterodox Opinion, And then that which I take to be the Orthodox. 1686R. Parr Life of Usher 15 Articles..Heterodox to the Doctrine and Articles of the Church of England. 1825Macaulay Milton Ess. (1887) 2 Some of the heterodox opinions which he avows..particularly his Arianism.
b. generally.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 210 That the name of any other Author, or Philosophy, seemeth Heterodoxe without examination. 1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. Ser. & Com. 24 Some call it Over-witting those they deal with, but that's generally denied as a Heterodox Definition. 1859W. Collins Q. of Hearts (1875) 6 The Major held some strangely heterodox opinions on the modern education of girls.
2. Of persons: Holding opinions not in accord with some acknowledged standard:
a. in theology;
b. in other matters of belief or opinion.
1657G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 18 Whosoever should dare to swarve from these [Galen and Aristotle]..being looked upon as Heterodox, was the object of scorn and derision. 1723J. Atkins Voy. Guinea (1735) 20 The Eastern Sages..teach the Heterodox a Lesson of Humility. 1842Pusey Crisis Eng. Ch. 96 We cannot treat the Orthodox Greek Church, at once as orthodox and heterodox. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xviii. 177 Admissions which recommended him to neither the orthodox nor the heterodox.
†B. n. Obs.
1. An opinion not in accord with that which is generally accepted as true or correct; a heterodox opinion.
1619Balcanqual's Let. fr. Syn. of Dort in Hales' Rem. (1673) 524 Upon Tuesday..the Canons of the first and second Article..were approved, except the last of the second Article..and the second heterodox in that same Article. Ibid., On Thursday morning..it was reasoned whether that last heterodox should be retained. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. iii. 66 Not onely a simple Heterodox, but a very hard Paradox, it will seeme, and of great absurdity unto obstinate eares. 1691W. Nicholls Answ. Naked Gospel 105 These and many more are the Heterodoxes of his Books.
2. A heterodox person. rare.
1647Trapp Comm. Matt. vii. 18 Heretics, then, and heterodoxes are not good honest men, as the vulgar counts them.
Hence ˈheterodoxly adv., in a heterodox way; ˈheterodoxness, heterodox quality or character.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq., Apol. 501 What Error or Heterodoxness in avowing it perfectly Celestial and æthereal? Ibid. 523 The speaking of two persons thus in Christ..seemed to administer some scruple of Heterodoxness to some. 1674C. Ellis Vanity of Scoffing 9 A thing so heterodoxly yet so magisterially asserted. 1698R. Ferguson View Eccles. 10 These who have either unthinkingly, or Heterodoxly imbibed his notions. |