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Heterodox   /hˌɛtərədˌɑks/   Listen
adjective
Heterodox  adj.  
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."
2.
Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; said of persons.



noun
Heterodox  n.  An opinion opposed to some accepted standard. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Heterodox" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sable ship bore also many an accusation and curse; among the spectators of the procession there were only too many whose mourning robes were worn not for the dead monarch, but their own nearest relatives, whom his pitiless edicts had given to the executioner as readers of the Bible or heterodox. ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... who probably has to make his way in the world!—and he despises ambition!' . . . Chillon dropped him. He was antipathetic to eccentrics, and his soldierly and social training opposed the profession of heterodox ideas: to have listened seriously to them coming from the mouth of an unambitious bootmaker's son involved him in the absurdity. He considered that there was no harm in the lad, rather a commendable sort of courage and some notion of manners; allowing for his ignorance of ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... get themselves married before they venture to begin working for a living. Mrs Dale, perhaps, regarded her own girls as still merely children, for Bell, the elder, was then hardly eighteen; or perhaps she held imprudent and heterodox opinions on this subject; or it may be that she selfishly preferred Dr Crofts, with all the danger to her children, to Dr Gruffen, with all the danger to herself. But the result was that the young doctor one day informed himself, as he ...
— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope

... water, nor had he any conscientious abhorrence of supper-parties; and, as his prospects in life were in no way dependent upon a class or a scholarship, and he seemed to be tacitly repudiated by the literati of his college, young and old, on account of some of his aforesaid heterodox notions on the subject of study, he accustomed himself gradually to set their opinions at defiance; while the moderate reading, which encouragement and emulation had made easy at school, became every day more ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various

... upon the images."[549] This was Bilney's heresy, or formed the ground of his arrest; he was orthodox on the mass, and also on the power of the keys; but the secrets of the sacred order were not to be betrayed with impunity. He was seized, and hurried before the Bishop of Norwich; and being found heterodox on the papacy and the mediation of the saints by the Bishop of Norwich he was ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude


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