heretical
[huh-ret-i-kuh l]
- of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
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Origin of heretical
Synonyms
See more synonyms for heretical on Thesaurus.comunorthodox, unconventional, dissident, radical.
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Examples from the Web for heretical
Contemporary Examples
This is a heretical view and if it were left at that, I don't think much good would come of it.
Either way, the FSA-ISIS feud got worse after the McCain visit with the Northern Storm, which ISIS viewed as a heretical act.
Obama Administration and Sotloff Family Battle Over Blame for Journalist’s KidnappingJosh Rogin
September 22, 2014
Son of God is so awful that it borders on godless—not sinful or heretical, just lacking true Spirit.
Conservatives have written the whole thing off as the heretical pursuit of the Bush administration.
Historical Examples
No book could be so heretical but he would read it, and read it carefully.
Albert DurerT. Sturge Moore
He had told the zealots of the town of the new-comer's heretical mode of thinking.
Dreamers of the GhettoI. Zangwill
After due examination it was condemned as heretical in 1615.
Great AstronomersR. S. Ball
But of all the heretical bodies in Bohemia the most influential were the Waldenses.
History of the Moravian ChurchJ. E. Hutton
Heretical worship was of a most licentious as well as disgusting kind.
The Superstitions of WitchcraftHoward Williams
Word Origin and History for heretical
adj.
early 15c., from Middle French eretical and directly from Medieval Latin haereticalis, from haereticus (see heretic).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper