orthodoxaladj.
/ˌɔːθəˈdɒksl/, U.S. /ˌɔrθəˈdɑks(ə)l/ Now rare.† 1. Maintaining, professing, or propounding beliefs which a particular religion, society, or culture holds to be correct; = orthodox adj. 2. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [adjective] > holding accepted beliefs
sound1526
well-believing1529
orthodoxal1593
principled1635
orthodox1645
maxim1674
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 84 The workes of the fathers, and Doctours, howsoeuer auncient, learned, or Orthodoxall, are little, or nothing worth.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) 89 Things..set downe in the Creed, and unanimously received by all Orthodoxall Christians.
1644 J. Milton in tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce To Parl sig. B3 In the public confession of a most orthodoxal Church & state in Germany.
1689 Sovereign Right of People over Tyrants 7 Mosaical, Christian, and Orthodoxal Authors.
2. Of opinions, doctrines, practices, etc.: conforming with what is accepted or authoritatively established as true; = orthodox adj. 1.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > orthodoxy > [adjective]
righteOE
orthodoxc1454
catholicc1500
sound1526
catholicala1530
orthodoxastical1570
orthodoxical1577
orthodoxal1607
symmetral1660
hardshell1836
hard-shelled1842
observant1902
bien pensant1923
1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 203 All Churches Protestant, and reformed subscribe vnto this doctrine as both Apostolicall and orthodoxall.
1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 21 Who willingly passe by that which is Orthodoxall in them, and studiously cull out that which is commentitious.
1656 B. Hubbard (title) Orthodoxal Navigation; or the admirable and excellent Art of Arithmetical Great Circle Sailing.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III Prol. in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 237/1 Shielding from the guilt of schism The orthodoxal syllogism.
1855 T. H. Skinner Old in New 17 May 14 We have of late given special evidence of our orthodoxal soundness and firmness.
1904 Sat. Rev. 16 Apr. 495/2 The best spirits of the time revolted from the ‘Orthodoxal Wormwood’ of the dominant Calvinism.
1992 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 1: Former U.S.S.R. (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 9 June SU/1402/B/1 [The chairman of Russia's Popular Patriotic Party] defines the party's objective as [the] ‘triumph of genuine, not orthodoxal, patriotism’.
Derivatives
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society > faith > aspects of faith > orthodoxy > [noun]
the faithc1384
truthc1384
soundness1583
orthodoxy1630
orthodoxness1644
orthodoxism1645
orthodoxalness1654
orthodoxality1660
symmetricalness1684
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness x. ii. 494 They be but neatly & elegantly trimm'd up in these fine ornaments of Orthodoxality.
1726 W. Penn Wks. I. Life 43 Denying with them the Authority, Antiquity, and Orthodoxality of the Romish Church.
orthoˈdoxally adv. rare orthodoxly.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > orthodoxy > [adverb]
soundly1574
orthodoxally1606
orthodoxly1641
orthodoxically1652
1606 W. Crashaw Falsificationum Romanarum 15 Ferus soundly and orthodoxally teacheth in plaine words, that Christs iustice is our iustification.
1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 608 A very excellent and worthy young fellow, who drinks brandy pawnee as orthodoxally as if he were a Christian.
1990 Amer. Hist. Rev. 95 1283/2 Eager to gloss portents orthodoxally but unable to win an interpretive monopoly, ministers criticized the public's fascination with portents..yet advertised them anyway as tokens of divine judgement.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > orthodoxy > [noun]
the faithc1384
truthc1384
soundness1583
orthodoxy1630
orthodoxness1644
orthodoxism1645
orthodoxalness1654
orthodoxality1660
symmetricalness1684
1654 H. Hammond Answer Animadversions on Diss. touching Ignatius's Epist. iii. §3. 67 The Orthodoxalness of Damas in this, and the like of other Bishops.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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