请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 schismatic
释义

Definition of schismatic in English:

schismatic

adjective skɪzˈmatɪksɪzˈmatɪks(k)ɪzˈmædɪk
  • Characterized by or favouring schism.

    schismatic religious movements were gaining currency
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The castles themselves helped to fuel the growing schismatic power of the Barons in later years to the great detriment of the local populace.
    • In 1920 a group of dissident priests formed a schismatic Czechoslovak Church after the Vatican rejected their demands for such reforms as the use of the vernacular in the liturgy and voluntary clerical celibacy.
    • The schismatic group bought the meeting house of the Unitarians located on the corner of Bull and York Streets.
    • Most accepted, but minorities existed, some still adhering to Rome, others, though not yet schismatic, to Presbyterianism or more extreme Protestant views.
    • In fact, his election discredited the conciliar movement as being schismatic.
    • Perhaps we'll all think of him from time to time while we exercise the right to rip each other apart with terse comments and schismatic sentiments.
    • This led church councils to impose their collective authority over unacceptable and (in this case) schismatic popes.
    • So it was that his invasion of England, where the church was schismatic, was officially a crusade and a papal banner flew over the Norman knights at Hastings.
    • Opposition to control by an Irish-American Catholic hierarchy gave rise to bitter conflicts and even a schismatic Polish National Catholic Church.
    • Last month, Benedict met with the head of the Society of St Pius X, the schismatic traditionalist movement whose leaders were excommunicated under Pope John Paul II.
    • Thus, the schismatic group was not necessarily heretical.
    • Right now, I feel this country needs that empathy more than anything else because we have a schismatic president who is portraying the world as a simplistic black-and-white cartoon.
    • She remembered the schismatic Patriarchs of the later Roman empire.
    • How far James contemplated turning Edinburgh into the orthodox rival of a schismatic Westminster is an interesting question, but the surviving evidence suggests he was more concerned with siring his army of bastard children.
    • This, he says, was due to the fact that ‘the South's religious mind was inarticulate, dissenting, and schismatical.’
    • The schismatic and regionalised development of the resistance has been its greatest weakness to date.
    Synonyms
    separatist, heterodox, dissident, dissentient, dissenting, heretical
    breakaway, splinter
noun skɪzˈmatɪksɪzˈmatɪks(k)ɪzˈmædɪk
historical
  • (especially in the Christian Church) a person who promotes schism; an adherent of a schismatic group.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was the unsurprising conviction of the Catholic bishops that the Catholic Church was the true church and that Orthodox Christians were schismatics.
    • If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
    • Bishops who deny the authority of Scripture and declare that God has changed his mind on matters of sexual ethics, they say, are heretics, not just schismatics.
    • Excommunication threatened the eternal life of heretics and schismatics, while the Holy Inquisition concentrated the minds of defiant Catholics by handing them over to the civil power for a spot of torture or burning.
    • Some churchmen are heard to grumble about violations of the prohibitions of shared worship with heretics and schismatics.
    Synonyms
    dissenter, dissentient, protester, rebel, renegade, freethinker, apostate, heretic, schismatic, recusant, seceder, individualist, free spirit, maverick, unorthodox person, eccentric, original, deviant, misfit, hippy, dropout, fish out of water, outsider

Derivatives

  • schismatically

  • adverb
    • The parishes that object to the motion are accusing the church of acting schismatically and essentially of having contravened canon law.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In his opinion, reflection on the church's tradition had become the means for distinguishing orthodoxy and heresy in a Johannine church that, by the time of 1 John, was schismatically at odds with itself.
      • However at the same time I do not view science as something schismatically separate from my Christianity.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French scismatique, via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek skhismatikos, from skhisma (see schism).

Rhymes

achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic
 
 

Definition of schismatic in US English:

schismatic

adjectives(k)izˈmadiks(k)ɪzˈmædɪk
  • Characterized by or favoring schism.

    schismatic religious movements were gaining currency
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In 1920 a group of dissident priests formed a schismatic Czechoslovak Church after the Vatican rejected their demands for such reforms as the use of the vernacular in the liturgy and voluntary clerical celibacy.
    • Opposition to control by an Irish-American Catholic hierarchy gave rise to bitter conflicts and even a schismatic Polish National Catholic Church.
    • This led church councils to impose their collective authority over unacceptable and (in this case) schismatic popes.
    • So it was that his invasion of England, where the church was schismatic, was officially a crusade and a papal banner flew over the Norman knights at Hastings.
    • How far James contemplated turning Edinburgh into the orthodox rival of a schismatic Westminster is an interesting question, but the surviving evidence suggests he was more concerned with siring his army of bastard children.
    • This, he says, was due to the fact that ‘the South's religious mind was inarticulate, dissenting, and schismatical.’
    • In fact, his election discredited the conciliar movement as being schismatic.
    • Last month, Benedict met with the head of the Society of St Pius X, the schismatic traditionalist movement whose leaders were excommunicated under Pope John Paul II.
    • The castles themselves helped to fuel the growing schismatic power of the Barons in later years to the great detriment of the local populace.
    • The schismatic and regionalised development of the resistance has been its greatest weakness to date.
    • She remembered the schismatic Patriarchs of the later Roman empire.
    • Most accepted, but minorities existed, some still adhering to Rome, others, though not yet schismatic, to Presbyterianism or more extreme Protestant views.
    • The schismatic group bought the meeting house of the Unitarians located on the corner of Bull and York Streets.
    • Right now, I feel this country needs that empathy more than anything else because we have a schismatic president who is portraying the world as a simplistic black-and-white cartoon.
    • Thus, the schismatic group was not necessarily heretical.
    • Perhaps we'll all think of him from time to time while we exercise the right to rip each other apart with terse comments and schismatic sentiments.
    Synonyms
    separatist, heterodox, dissident, dissentient, dissenting, heretical
nouns(k)izˈmadiks(k)ɪzˈmædɪk
historical
  • (especially in the Christian Church) a person who promotes schism; an adherent of a schismatic group.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bishops who deny the authority of Scripture and declare that God has changed his mind on matters of sexual ethics, they say, are heretics, not just schismatics.
    • Excommunication threatened the eternal life of heretics and schismatics, while the Holy Inquisition concentrated the minds of defiant Catholics by handing them over to the civil power for a spot of torture or burning.
    • If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
    • It was the unsurprising conviction of the Catholic bishops that the Catholic Church was the true church and that Orthodox Christians were schismatics.
    • Some churchmen are heard to grumble about violations of the prohibitions of shared worship with heretics and schismatics.
    Synonyms
    dissenter, dissentient, protester, rebel, renegade, freethinker, apostate, heretic, schismatic, recusant, seceder, individualist, free spirit, maverick, unorthodox person, eccentric, original, deviant, misfit, hippy, dropout, fish out of water, outsider

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French scismatique, via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek skhismatikos, from skhisma (see schism).

 
 
随便看

 

英语词典包含464360条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/22 23:14:58