About The Word Heterodox
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Heterodox
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What's The Definition Of Heterodox?
[adj] characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
Synonyms | Synonyms for Heterodox: dissident | heretical | unorthodox Related Terms | Find terms related to Heterodox: aberrant | abroad | adrift | Albigensian | all abroad | all off | all wrong | amiss | antinomian | apocryphal | Arian | askew | astray | at fault | awry | beat | beside the mark | Bohemian | breakaway | Catharist | corrupt | deceptive | defective | delusive | deviant | deviational | deviative | dissident | distorted | Donatist | Ebionitist | emanationist | Erastian | errant | erring | erroneous | fallacious | false | far out | faultful | faulty | flawed | free and easy | fringy | Gnostic | heretical | hippie | hylotheist | hylotheistic | illogical | illusory | individualistic | informal | inner-directed | Jansenist | Jansenistic | Jovinianist | Jovinianistic | kinky | Lollard | Manichaean | maverick | Monophysite | Monophysitic | Montanist | Montanistic | nonconformist | nonorthodox | not cricket | not done | not kosher | not right | not true | off | off the track | offbeat | original | out | pantheist | pantheistic | peccant | Pelagian | perverse | perverted | Sabellian | schismatic | sectarian | self-contradictory | straying | unaccepted | unapproved | unauthentic | unauthoritative | uncanonical | unconventional | unfactual | unfashionable | unorthodox | unproved | unscriptural | unsound | untrue | Waldensian | way out | wide | wrong | Wyclifite See Also | Heterodox In Webster's Dictionary \Het"er*o*dox\, a. [Gr. ?; ? other + ? opinion; cf. F.
h['e]t['e]rodoxe.]
1. Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged
standard, 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.
2. Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox;
heretical; -- said of persons. --Macaulay. --
{Het"er*o*dox`ly}, adv. -- {Het"er*o*dox`ness}, n.
\Het"er*o*dox\, n. An opinion opposed to some accepted standard. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. |
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