heretical

[huh-ret-i-kuhl]

of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.

Origin of heretical

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English word from Medieval Latin word haereticālis. See heretic, -al¹

Related formshe·ret·i·cal·ly, adverbhe·ret·i·cal·ness, nounnon·he·ret·i·cal, adjectivenon·he·ret·i·cal·ly, adverbsem·i·he·ret·i·cal, adjective

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This is a heretical view and if it were left at that, I don't think much good would come of it.
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Either way, the FSA-ISIS feud got worse after the McCain visit with the Northern Storm, which ISIS viewed as a heretical act.
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Son of God is so awful that it borders on godless—not sinful or heretical, just lacking true Spirit.
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Conservatives have written the whole thing off as the heretical pursuit of the Bush administration.
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No book could be so heretical but he would read it, and read it carefully.
Albert Durer
T. Sturge Moore
He had told the zealots of the town of the new-comer's heretical mode of thinking.
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After due examination it was condemned as heretical in 1615.
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But of all the heretical bodies in Bohemia the most influential were the Waldenses.
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J. E. Hutton
Heretical worship was of a most licentious as well as disgusting kind.
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Word Origin and History for heretical

adj.

early 15c., from Middle French eretical and directly from Medieval Latin haereticalis, from haereticus (see heretic).