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schismatic
Word definitions for schismatic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (n.); mid-15c. (adj.), from Old French scismatique (Modern French schismatique ), from Church Latin schismaticus , from Greek skhismatikos , from schisma (see schism ). Used also as a noun in Old French and Late Latin. Related: Schismatical ; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Depending on the context, schismatic may mean: a member of a Schism (religion) , or, as an adjective, of or pertaining to a schism pertaining to the schisma in music Schismatic temperament
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism; "schismatic sects" [syn: schismatical ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Schismatic \Schis*mat"ic\ (?; 277), n. One who creates or takes part in schism; one who separates from an established church or religious communion on account of a difference of opinion. ``They were popularly classed together as canting schismatics.'' ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context religion English) Of or pertaining to a schism 2 (context music English) Of or pertaining to a schisma 3 divisive n. (context religion English) A person involved in a schism
Usage examples of schismatic.
And during the time of the antipopes, how many schismatic Orders were fabricating their own versions of things, and passing off their versions as the work of earlier men?
In truth, the Timekeeper had gambled sending Soli to capture or kill the schismatic pilots, and he had lost his gamble.
Christian sovereigns, including the basileus of the Constantinople schismatics, would seem hovels, and as priest he had to have a temple compared to which the churches of the pope were shacks.
But there are numerous schismatic sects which hold opinions diverging from it in regard to the nature and destiny of the human soul.
All who kept out of the pale of the national church were denounced as schismatics, deists, atheists--it was all one.
The Land of Onias was the home of the Jews who had fled from Hellenized Judaea after refusing to acknowledge a schismatic high priest, and it kept its fervent Jewishness still.
Alexander, seeing that he would get nothing better from the magnificent republic, sent as deputies Gioacchino Turriano of Venice, General of the Dominicans, and Francesco Ramolini, doctor in law: they practically brought the sentence with them, declaring Savonarola and his accomplices heretics, schismatics, persecutors of the Church and seducers of the people.
Turks we have nothing to fear: our problem is with your schismatics, always.
Father Caspar had erred to such an extent that he found himself, unwittingly, on our hundred-and-eightieth meĀridian, I mean the one we calculate from Greenwich, the last place on earth he would have thought of, because it lay in the country of schismatic antipapists.
Who will believe the testimony of a little bastard like you, forgive the expression, of a drunk like me, of a Jew and a schismatic, of three wandering clerks, and of Boidi, who, as an Alessandrian, more than anyone else had every reason to hate Frederick?
The past he regretted, he was discontented with the present, and the future he had reason to dread: the Oriental bishops successively disengaged their cause from his unpopular name, and each day decreased the number of the schismatics who revered Nestorius as the confessor of the faith.
His gratitude and policy conferred on Robert and his posterity the ducal title, ^43 with the investiture of Apulia, Calabria, and all the lands, both in Italy and Sicily, which his sword could rescue from the schismatic Greeks and the unbelieving Saracens.
That chafing had been the decisive factor in starting the Schismatic Wars, but The Temple used those wars to put an end to such foolishness forever.
Its walls had been razed after the Schismatic Wars, but the heretics were building new ones.
Through a vast usurpation the minority of non-believers, indifferent or lukewarm, has striven to impose its ecclesiastical forms on the Catholic majority, and the situation thereby created for the Catholic priest is such that unless he becomes schismatic, he cannot fail to appear as an enemy.