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s . . . because every man took what opinion he pleased, each several opinion was called a heresy; which signified no more than a private opinion, without reference to truth or falsehood. Hobbes.

A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C.

One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter. Some such broacher of heresy. Atterbury.

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

ment or puplic penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.

To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. [Obs.] The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches. Fuller. God hath detested them with his own mouth. Bale.

Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated. The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative. Jer. Taylor.

as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

ion; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.

Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.

d bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. Hooker. Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.

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

A chief or great heresy. [R.] The book itself [the Alcoran] consists of heresiarchies against our blessed Savior. Sir T. Herbert.

A treatise on heresy.

One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion. A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject. Titus iii. 10.

Containing heresy; of the nature of, or characterized by, heresy.

To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical. Bp. Hall. And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me. Fitzed. Hall.

tablished standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church, etc.; heresy. Bp. Bull.

A heresy consisting in an unconcern for any particular creed, provided the morals be right and good. Gregory XVI.

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.