hereticaladj.
/hɪˈrɛtɪkəl/ Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics; of the nature of heresy.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [adjective]
dwal-kennedc1175
misbelievedc1225
dwalea1325
misbelievingc1330
land-leaping1377
hereticc1384
heretical1532
sinistral1542
sinistrous1562
unsound1597
pseudo-religious1672
Manichaeistic1924
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 346/2 Al that in the while both bought and solde of those hereticall bokes.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 26 Diuerse heriticall erroniouse and dangerouse opinions and doctrines.
1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 104 Masse bookes..appertayninge to the hereticall service.
1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 40 They [the Turks] and the Persians, the one seeming hæreticall to the other, are in continuall warre.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 318 To prove that Christians are not to tolerate..Hæretical Kings.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iv. ii. iv. 160/2 To bring Heterodox, and it may be Heretical Persons into their Communion.
1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) vii. 246 No one likes to be called ‘heretical’, but neither is it a term of unmixed eulogy to be called ‘orthodox’.
Derivatives
heˈretically adv. in a heretical manner.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [adverb]
irreligiously1577
heretically1680
1680 R. Baxter Moral Prognostication ii. xxx. 54 If any Minister Preach or Pray..Heretically, to the Danger of the Peoples Souls.
1701 J. Strype Life Aylmer (R.) He ignorantly and heretically held against the bishop, that the soul of man was of the substance of God.
heˈreticalness n. heretical quality or character.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [noun] > quality
hereticalness1681
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel App. ii. 291 Multitudes who, because of their supposed Hereticalness, lay dead, useless and unactive.
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