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orthodox
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES conventional/orthodox medicine (= ordinary modern medicine ) ▪ Some sufferers reject conventional medicine. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ Middlesbrough manager Lennie Lawrence will include Slaven in a ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 conforming to the established, accepted or traditional doctrines of a given ideology, faith or religion. (from 15th c.) 2 Adhering to whatever is traditional, customary or generally accepted. 3 (cx botany of seed, pollen, spores English) viable for ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orthodox \Or"tho*dox\, a. [L. orthodoxus, Gr. 'orqo`doxos; 'orqo`s right, true + do`xa opinion, dokei^n to think, seem; cf. F. orthodoxe. See Ortho- , Dogma .] Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence, holding the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., of opinions, faith, from Late Latin orthodoxus , from Greek orthodoxos "having the right opinion," from orthos "right, true, straight" (see ortho- ) + doxa "opinion, praise," from dokein "to seem," from PIE root *dek- "to take, accept" (see decent ...
Usage examples of orthodox.
Buda-Pesth did not think of figures and they carried home the tidings of the antitoxin to all corners of the world, in a few years the antitoxin treatment of diphtheria became orthodox, and now there is not one doctor out of a thousand who will not swear that this antitoxin is a beautiful cure.
From that you may suppose that Ishtar family were rigidly doctrinaire Presbyterians, or superlatively moral Catholics, or tradition-bound Orthodox Jews, but if you do, it an assumption.
Fremont, I had just begun doing some riveting research into ancient Greek Orthodox ecclesiology at the library.
In the works even of those mystics who efface the limits between things human and divine, who put Judaism, Christianity, and Paganism on the same line with the revelation of Mohammed, and who are therefore duly anathematized by the whole orthodox world, almost every page testifies to the relation of the ideas enounced with Mohammedan civilization.
The uniform orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church has always been that in the last day the identical fleshly bodies formerly inhabited by men shall be raised from the earth, sea, and air, and given to them again to be everlastingly assumed.
The same zeal which inspired their songs prompted the more scrupulous members of the orthodox party to form separate assemblies, which were governed by the presbyters, till the death of their exiled bishop allowed the election and consecration of a new episcopal pastor.
XVII FOURTEEN priests were kept in the Suzdal friary prison, chiefly for having been untrue to the orthodox faith.
Below, in smaller print, were the specifics: the 1955 pogrom in Istanbul in which 15 Greeks were killed, 200 Greek women raped, 4,348 stores looted, 59 Orthodox churches destroyed, and even the graves of the Patriarchs desecrated.
Haller replied, cautiously, as he had his reasons for being considered orthodox.
I ended by craving pardon, if I had offended the chaplain, as I was a good Christian, and orthodox on all points.
What will not the orthodox tribes give for this arch-Shiah, this despoiler of the sacred Haram at Mecca?
Whatever those heterodox inclusions may mean, they were, it cannot be stressed too much, totally at variance with orthodox Christianity.
Both indurated by early domestic training and an inherited tenacity of heterodox resistance professed their disbelief in many orthodox religious, national, social and ethical doctrines.
Go as an orthodox hopper and throw yourself on the mercies of the past.
An iconostasis is an icon-bearing partition with three doors that spans the width of an Orthodox church, separating the body of the church from the sanctuary.