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orthopraxy rare.|ˈɔːθəʊpræksɪ|
[f. ortho- + Gr. πρᾶξις doing, action, performance.]
1. [after orthodoxy.] Rightness of action; right-doing, practical righteousness; correct practice. Also orthopraxis.
1852Lynch Orthodoxy in Lett. to Scattered (1872) 270, I wish there was more orthopraxy in the world. 1859Life Eben Henderson vi. 382 Let us have orthopraxy as well as orthodoxy. 1873F. Hall Mod. Eng. iii. 86 What, then, constitutes grammatical orthopraxy? 1951Jrnl. Theol. Stud. II. 98 The complete obedience of Jesus must be taken to be a complete vindication of the Law, and therefore the champions of legal orthodoxy (and orthopraxis), such as James and Peter, are the heroes of Jewish Christianity. 1960J. Parkes Foundations Judaism & Christianity vi. 297 We cannot..imagine an orthopraxy, which made a mizwah of reciting a special blessing over a fruit tree in bloom, attached to a Puritan theology which was quick to threaten Hell-fire for any slight disobedience. Ibid., Historically however, rabbinic orthopraxy was lived with an entirely different background. Ibid. 311 There does not appear to have been any single system, nor was any particular method of choice a matter of ‘orthopraxis’. 1971Clergy Review LVI. 218 The orthodoxy of faith in the coming universal kingdom must constantly be made true in the ortho-praxy of creative flight forward with the world. 1976E. Maclaren Nature of Belief vii. 73 No amount of impeccable orthodoxy is belief. Belief is orthopraxis, commitment to certain action.
2. The curative treatment of deformities; orthopædic surgery.
1865Bigg Orthopraxy (1869) 11 Orthopraxy is the legitimate culmination of mechanics as applied to therapeutics. 1866Sat. Rev. 422 Why should not ‘Orthopraxy’ have a representative in the Council of Medical Education? |