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- noun Archaic spelling of
heretic .
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Examples
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Sample usage: “Þe kyng said..þe pape was heretike..&lyued in bugerie” Robert Mannyng of Brunne, The Chronicle of England, Part2.
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To whome the Kyng gaue counsaile to departe, and not to appeare: for in case he appeared he could not help him, because the Byshops had persuaded him, that the cause of heresie did in no wise appertayne vnto him, and so James fled and was condemned as an heretike, and all his goods and landes confiscat, and disposed vnto others.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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He is an heretike which either enuentith/or folowith fals and new opinions for ony worldly commoditie/and cheifly to gett himself glorie ãd autorite.
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_Supplicacion of Soules_, nor in the reply to the "nameles heretike," have I discovered the slightest clue to its meaning.
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Ye, and they looke so narowly uppon theyre proufittes, that the poore wyves must be countable to thym of every tenth eg, or elles she gettith not her rytes at ester, shal be taken as an heretike ....
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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Ye, and they looke so narowly uppon theyre proufittes, that the poore wyves must be countable to thym of every tenth eg, or elles she gettith not her rytes at ester, shal be taken as an heretike ....
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918
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[Sidenote: The coronacion of oure kyng.] [Sidenote: The pucell de Dieu was take.] [Sidenote: A wolle pakker a heretike.]
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In this yere was an heretike brent at the Tour Hill upon Hokmonday.
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This yere an heretike callid Habraham was taken, which accusid diverse persones of the cite and other places, of which some were abjurid at, and did theire penaunce at Paulis.
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Sonday to his parishners, the Epistle or Gospel, as it fell for the tyme: whiche then was a great noueltie in Scotlande, to see anye man preach, except a Blacke fryer, or a gray frier: and therefore the Fryers enuyed hym, and accused hym to the Bishop of Dunkelden (in whose Dioces he remayned) as an heretike and one that shewed the mysteries of the scriptures to the vulgare people in Englishe, to make the Clergie detestable in the sight of the people.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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