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

In an heretical manner.

ons and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

Apostate. An heretical and apostatical church. Bp. Hall.

Heretical.

A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

rch accepts the first seven ecumenical councils (and is hence styled only schismatic, not heretical, by the Roman Catholic Church), has as its creed the Niceno- Constantinopolitan (without the later addition of the filioque, which, with the doctrine it represents, the church decisively rejects), baptizes infants with t…

ch; to interdict. Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books. Miltin.

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.

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.

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

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.

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