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Inquisition :: Inquisition (n.) A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy..

Adiaphorist :: Adiaphorist (n.) One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical..

Heterodox :: Heterodox (a.) Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects..

Orthodox :: Orthodox (a.) Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to heretical and heterodox; as, an orthodox Christian..

Impeccable :: Impeccable (n.) One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness..

Docetae :: Docetae (n. pl.) Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

Hussite :: Hussite (n.) A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415..

Heretical :: Heretical (a.) Containing heresy; of the nature of, or characterized by, heresy..

Damianist :: Damianist (n.) A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity..

Hereticate :: Hereticate (v. t.) To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical.

Catheretic :: Catheretic (n.) A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.

Auto-da-fe :: Auto-da-fe (n.) An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies..

Hermogenian :: Hermogenian (n.) A disciple of Hermogenes, an heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls and spirits are formed of corrupt matter..

Heretification :: Heretification (n.) The act of hereticating or pronouncing heretical.

Sarabaite :: Sarabaite (n.) One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.

Simonian :: Simonian (n.) One of the followers of Simon Magus; also, an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early Christian church..

Nestorian :: Nestorian (n.) An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian..

Shiah :: Shiah (n.) A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans..

Heterodox :: Heterodox (a.) Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; -- said of persons..

Heretic :: Heretic (n.) One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.

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