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3. A second offense is that of heresy, which consists not in a total denial of Christianity, but of some its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed.Blackstone. "When I call dueling, and similar aberrations of honor, a moral heresy, I refer to the force of the Greek as signifying a principle or opinion taken up by the will for the will's sake, as a proof or pledge to itself of its own power of self- determination, independent of all other motives." Coleridge. Heretic A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject.Titus iii. 10. Syn. Heretic, Schismatic, Sectarian. A heretic is one whose errors are doctrinal, and usually of a malignant character, tending to subvert the true faith. A schismatic is one who creates a schism, or division in the church, on points of faith, discipline, practice, etc., usually for the sake of personal aggrandizement. A sectarian is one who originates or is an ardent adherent and advocate of a sect, or distinct organization, which separates from the main body of believers. Heretical Heretically Hereticate And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me.Fitzed. Hall. Heretification |
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