heresiarch

• Tell him all I have told you about that heresiarch, Dr Martin, and if he believes what you say, you may thus have the happiness of counteracting the effects of the evil and abominable instructions he will receive This was a bright idea. —  Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany
• The real heresiarch was a physician who died in 1583; his heresy was promulgated in a work, published immediately after his death by his widow, De Excommunicatione Ecclesiastica_. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
• The bishop instantly gave orders to burn this abominable rag of the great heresiarch, and forthwith, not only the stench ceased, but there proceeded from the true relics such a delicious and heavenly odour as perfumed the entire building ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER, NO. —  Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
• In all the mighty controversy he was ever ready to serve the Gospel with his life or with his death TETZEL'S END Tetzel continued to bray and fume against him from pulpit and press, denouncing him as a heresiarch, heretic, and schismatic. —  Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties
• [438:2 About a century after the appearance of Montanus, another individual, in a more remote part of Asia, acquired great notoriety as a heresiarch. —  The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution

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