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A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The act of hereticating or pronouncing heretical. London Times.

A disciple of Hermogenes, and heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He ha

as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects. Raw and indigested, heterodox, preaching. Strype.

A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.

One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness. God is infallible, impeccable, and absolutely perfect. P. Skelton.

A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.

A religious war against infidels or Mohammedan heretics; also, any bitter war or crusade for a principle or belief.

To impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism. The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus. Milton.

nt of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by…

the Christian faith; believing the doctrines taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to Ant: heretical and Ant: heterodox; as, an orthodox Christian.

r of the pan, to suggest the process of cooking or burning; in a theological sense, to be heretical. Ridley. Southey.

One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.

ditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans.

One of the followers of Simon Magus; also, an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early Christian church.

Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain. Because heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements. Hayward.

and full of ragerie [wantonness] Stubborn and strong, and jolly as a pie. Chaucer. These heretics be so stiff and stubborn. Sir T. More. Your stubborn usage of the pope. Shak.