Heresy
1Heresy — • St. Thomas defines heresy: a species of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt its dogmas Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Heresy Heresy …
2HERESY — HERESY, belief in ideas contrary to those advocated by religious authorities. Because Judaism has no one official formulation of dogma against which heresy can be defined, it has no clear cut definition of heresy. A heretic may be distinguished… …
3Heresy — Her e*sy, n.; pl. {Heresies}. [OE. heresie, eresie, OF. heresie, iresie, F. h[ e]r[ e]sie, L. haeresis, Gr. ? a taking, a taking for one s self, choosing, a choice, a sect, a heresy, fr. ? to take, choose.] [1913 Webster] 1. An opinion held in… …
4heresy — [her′ə sē] n. pl. heresies [ME heresie < OFr < L haeresis, school of thought, sect, in LL(Ec), heresy < Gr hairesis, a taking, selection, school, sect, in LGr(Ec), heresy < hairein, to take] 1. a) a religious belief opposed to the… …
5Heresy — Allgemeine Informationen Genre(s) Hardcore Punk, Grindcore Gründung 1983 als Plasmid Auflösung 1988 …
6heresy — index blasphemy, nonconformity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
7heresy — an opinion of private men different from that of the catholick and orthodox church [Johnson], c.1200, from O.Fr. heresie (12c.), from L. hæresis, school of thought, philosophical sect, used by Christian writers for unorthodox sect or doctrine,… …
8heresy — [n] unorthodox opinion, especially in religious matters agnosticism, apostasy, atheism, blasphemy, defection, disbelief, dissent, dissidence, divergence, error, fallacy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, impiety, infidelity, misbelief, nonconformism,… …
9heresy — ► NOUN (pl. heresies) 1) belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (especially Christian) doctrine. 2) opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted. ORIGIN Greek hairesis choice, sect …
10Heresy — Heretical redirects here. For the website, see Heretical (website). For the collectible card game, see Heresy: Kingdom Come. Not to be confused with hearsay. Heresy (from Greek αἵρεσις, which originally meant choice ) is a controversial or novel… …
