Heterodox \Het"er*o*dox\, a. [Gr. ?; ? other + ? opinion; cf. F.
h['e]t['e]rodoxe.]
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.
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Raw and indigested, heterodox, preaching. --Strype.
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2. Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox;
heretical; -- said of persons. --Macaulay. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Heterodox \Het"er*o*dox\, n.
An opinion opposed to some accepted standard. [Obs.] --Sir T.
Browne.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
heterodox
adj : characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or
standards [syn: dissident, heretical]
WordNet (r) 2.0
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "heterodox":
Albigensian, Arian, Bohemian, Catharist, Donatist, Ebionitist,
Erastian, Gnostic, Jansenist, Jansenistic, Jovinianist,
Jovinianistic, Lollard, Manichaean, Monophysite, Monophysitic,
Montanist, Montanistic, Pelagian, Sabellian, Waldensian, Wyclifite,
aberrant, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss,
antinomian, apocryphal, askew, astray, at fault, awry, beat,
beside the mark, breakaway, corrupt, deceptive, defective,
delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, dissident, distorted,
emanationist, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false,
far out, faultful, faulty, flawed, free and easy, fringy,
heretical, hippie, hylotheist, hylotheistic, illogical, illusory,
individualistic, informal, inner-directed, kinky, maverick,
nonconformist, nonorthodox, not cricket, not done, not kosher,
not right, not true, off, off the track, offbeat, original, out,
pantheist, pantheistic, peccant, perverse, perverted, schismatic,
sectarian, self-contradictory, straying, unaccepted, unapproved,
unauthentic, unauthoritative, uncanonical, unconventional,
unfactual, unfashionable, unorthodox, unproved, unscriptural,
unsound, untrue, way out, wide, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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