Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to heresy or heretics.
- adj. Characterized by, revealing, or approaching departure from established beliefs or standards.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Containing or characterized by heresy; contrary to established opinions or principles; contrary to an accepted standard of religious faith.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.
- adj. Contrary to mainstream or accepted opinion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Containing heresy; of the nature of, or characterized by, heresy.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Middle French eretical and from Medieval Latin haereticalis, from haereticus. See heretic. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“MARTIN: What do you say to those who argue that this kind of discussion is, I'm not going to use the word heretical, because I think that has its own sort of theological meaning, but I mean it's cherry picking.”
“While the cults, sects, and small mindedness of the mobs grew, the loss of those with a real higher understanding became larger and larger, as they die and more control by the mobs, brainwashing in heretical ideas takes hold.”
“Yet I have never seen anyone committed to community-building undermine community development simply by the expression of heretical ideas.”
“Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.”
“a church they call heretical, should _dare_ to talk of our scruples”
“The early-Christian "Jesus cult" was very different from the organized Christianity of our own age, as Elaine Pagels showed in this classic study of the so-called "heretical" traditions of Christianity in the first few centuries after Jesus' death—that is to say, all those diverse traditions that the church establishment later took care to brand as wrong.”
The Wall Street Journal: Five Best: Religious Cults In Antiquity
“So here you have Scobak, an Orthodox rabbi who heads education for the world's most respected Jewish anti-missionary group, agreeing with my thesis which Rabbi Schochet, without a single source, calls heretical.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: What Is Motivating The Global Ban On 'Kosher Jesus'?
“There are, no doubt, many people who read my books secretly simply because they are afraid of what people will think about them if they see them investigating such so-called heretical ideas.”
Simon & Schuster: God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
“Many have graduated from Econe and I know of no one of those graduates who have their theology described as heretical or problematical by the Church.”
“While Infancy Thomas was rebuked by a few heresiarchs, the Protegangelion never was called heretical that I know of.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘heretical’.
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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ymmez22's Words
despotic, fiefdom, demagogue, vignette, chavvy, esoteric, stalwarts, unpalatable, eradicated, rapacious, repugnant, zeitgeist and 89 more...
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Hit Parade GRE
Princeton Review words
abscond, aberrant, alacrity, anomaly, approbation, arduous, assuage, audacious, austere, axiomatic, canonical, capricious and 287 more...
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amagnano's Words
truculent, churlish, antipathy, sociopathy, loquacious, disheveled, pouilly-fuisse, enamored, marked, assuage, ascetic, pagan and 190 more...
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Angels and Demons Word list
behemoth, disquietude, exalted, heretical, schlock, delirium, precipice, infallible, fathom, fervent, cavern, ardent and 35 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
hurlyburly, hurtle, hodgepodge, heartwood, hatch, halo, hooptedoodle, hacienda, hairpin, heyday, hardscrabble, hopper and 208 more...
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Obnoxious behavior
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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GRE List
anthem, ablution, apocrypha, augur, cardinal, cathedral, chant, chapel, cloister, conformist, cult, devout and 145 more...
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Words. Just words.
Our chief weapons are words, that's all. Just words. Only words, not justly words, that is.
That is to say that there are only words in this list, not words that are just, although s...profligacy, monty, the arc of history, luddite, peremptory, brusque, languid, callipygian, perniciously, insidiousness, camelot, perforce and 189 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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phuzzy's Words
entomophagan, corpuscle, mellifluence, haberdasher, milliner, tow, spartan, bdellotomy, trepan, trephine, congenial, courtly and 208 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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Basic Vocaulary
censure, appease, affable, conviction, heretical, mundane, exalted, detached, paradigm, charisma, conformity, allude and 96 more...
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supplementary
for enhancement of any English test
consanguineous, worldly, naiveté, enshroud, pernicious, prerogative, traitor, fledgling, vengeance, provision, furnish, quarrel and 94 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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