schism /si- or ski-zm/

1. A breach, esp in the unity of a church
2. Promotion of such a breach
3. A body so formed

schisma /skizˈmə/ noun (music)

Half the difference between twelve perfect fifths and seven octaves

schismatic /siz-matˈik or skiz-/ noun

1. Someone who favours a schism or belongs to a schismatic body
2. A Catholic who avoided penalties by occasional conformity (RC)

(also schismatˈical) tending to, favouring, or of the nature of, a schism

schismatˈically adverb

schismatˈicalness noun

schisˈmatize or schisˈmatise intransitive verb

1. To practise schism
2. To make a schism

schism house or schism shop noun (old, esp 19c)

Contemptuous Anglican terms for a nonconformist church

• self-offence
• self-opening
• self-operating
• self-opinion
• self-opinionated
• self-opinionative
• self-opinioned
• self-opinions
• self-ordained
• self-parodies
• self-parody
• self-perpetuating
• self-perpetuation
• self-pious
• self-pity
• self-pitying
• self-pityingly
• self-planted
• self-pleasing
• self-poised
• self-pollinated
• self-pollination
• self-pollution
• self-portrait
• self-portraits