heretic
her·etic (her′ə tik)
noun
a person who professes a heresy; esp., a church member who holds beliefs opposed to church dogma
Etymology: ME heretike < MFr hérétique < LL(Ec) haereticus, of heresy, heretic < Gr hairetikos, able to choose, in LGr(Ec), heretical < hairein, to take, choose
adjective
Converse of object
- burn: Can't stop to chat, I'm off to burn some heretics.
- consider: Not only was she officially still illegitimate, she was also considered a heretic.
- call: Maybe part of being liberal is a willingness to question every part of faith at the risk of being called a heretic.
- become: I have become a heretic on the question of EU expansion.
- persecute: The Church persecuted heretics, who denied the divinity of Jesus, into extinction.
- declare: Yet none of them has been declared a heretic or their books banned from our shelves.
Adjective modifier
- other: She suffered with three other heretics who had all offended in the same delicate point ( fn.
- first: One of the first heretics went by the name of Marcion.
- Arian: Since his opponents were Arian heretics, he is claimed as a Catholic martyr.
- certain: It is true that certain heretics in the 2nd century like Marcion rejected them.
- such: It may be that there have never been many such formal heretics.
- Albigensian: He was a friend of Saint Dominic, and persecuted the Albigensian heretics till his death in 1231.
Modifies a noun
- marcion: Somewhere about AD 150, the heretic Marcion arrived in Rome, and he probably died before 165.
- Pharaoh: Akenaten is vilified as the heretic Pharaoh and his name is erased from statues and monuments.
- point: Eric the Heretic points the finger of guilt What's the need for health care?
Noun used with modifier
- century: Again, already in the second century heretics were making capital out of the discrepancies between the Gospels. [ Iren.
- burning: When governments stopped burning heretics and witches, effigy burning remained as a threatening gesture of the mob.
Preposition: in
- century: It is true that certain heretics in the 2nd century like Marcion rejected them.
Preposition: of
- century: Listening to the program, one would never know why one of the skeptical heretics of the twentieth century simply will not go away.
[Jeremy] Bentham held no post at the mercy of bankers and tripe sellers; he was a man of independent means, a lawyer and politician and a heretic in general practice. It is impossible to imagine such a man occupying a chair at Harvard or Princeton.Hehad a hand intoomany pies; he was too rebellious and contumacious; he had too little respect for authority, either academic or worldly. Moreover, his mind was too wide for a professor; he Mencken could never remain safely in a groove; the whole field of social organization invited his inquiries and experiments.
Tout re¤ volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he¤ re¤ tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
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