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A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart. Shak.

Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy. [R.] Heterodoxy, or what Luther calls cacodoxy. R. Turnbull.

An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines, contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church, etc.; heresy. Bp. Bull.

Orthodoxy pushed to excess.

A nitrogenous substance, C8H7NO, isomeric with oxindol, obtained as an oily liquid.

Of or pertaining to, or producing, indoxyl; as, indoxylic acid.

s taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy. Basil himself bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy. Waterland.

A paradoxical statement; a paradox.

f doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.

of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy. Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From whence arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies by God abhor'd. Spenser. Deluded people! that do not consider that the greatest heresy in the world is a wicked life…

, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin.

One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy.

Pertaining to, or evincing, orthodoxy; orthodox. [R.] Milton.

Pertaining to, or evincing, orthodoxy; orthodox.

The quality or state of being orthodox; orthodoxy. Waterland.

That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy. N. W. Taylor.