heterodox

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heterodox - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Heterodox \Het"er*o*dox\, a. [Gr. ?; ? other + ? opinion; cf. F.
     h['e]t['e]rodoxe.]
     1. 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.
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              Raw and indigested, heterodox, preaching. --Strype.
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     2. Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox;
        heretical; -- said of persons. --Macaulay. --
        Het"er*o*dox`ly, adv. -- Het"er*o*dox`ness, n.
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  Heterodox \Het"er*o*dox\, n.
     An opinion opposed to some accepted standard. [Obs.] --Sir T.
     Browne.
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heterodox - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  heterodox
      adj 1: characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or
             standards [syn: dissident, heretical, heterodox]

heterodox - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "heterodox":
     Albigensian, Arian, Bohemian, Catharist, Donatist, Ebionitist,
     Erastian, Gnostic, Jansenist, Jansenistic, Jovinianist,
     Jovinianistic, Lollard, Manichaean, Monophysite, Monophysitic,
     Montanist, Montanistic, Pelagian, Sabellian, Waldensian, Wyclifite,
     aberrant, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss,
     antinomian, apocryphal, askew, astray, at fault, awry, beat,
     beside the mark, breakaway, corrupt, deceptive, defective,
     delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, dissident, distorted,
     emanationist, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false,
     far out, faultful, faulty, flawed, free and easy, fringy,
     heretical, hippie, hylotheist, hylotheistic, illogical, illusory,
     individualistic, informal, inner-directed, kinky, maverick,
     nonconformist, nonorthodox, not cricket, not done, not kosher,
     not right, not true, off, off the track, offbeat, original, out,
     pantheist, pantheistic, peccant, perverse, perverted, schismatic,
     sectarian, self-contradictory, straying, unaccepted, unapproved,
     unauthentic, unauthoritative, uncanonical, unconventional,
     unfactual, unfashionable, unorthodox, unproved, unscriptural,
     unsound, untrue, way out, wide, wrong