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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to heresy or heretics.
  2. adj. Characterized by, revealing, or approaching departure from established beliefs or standards.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Containing or characterized by heresy; contrary to established opinions or principles; contrary to an accepted standard of religious faith.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.
  2. adj. Contrary to mainstream or accepted opinion.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Middle French eretical and from Medieval Latin haereticalis, from haereticus. See heretic. (Wiktionary)

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