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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
orthodox
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 more orthodox formation.
▪ Just the kind of thing a team without a more orthodox identity would try.
▪ Equally satisfactory results can be obtained using more orthodox treatments.
▪ The present more orthodox incumbent was a tough man as well as an Augustine; accustomed to risky assignments in Cairo.
■ NOUN
account
▪ Like the orthodox account, they locate the crisis specifically within the prison rather than in the penal system as a whole.
▪ We think it is roughly correct to say that the orthodox account sees the different factors interacting as in Figure 1.1.
▪ One could try to modify the orthodox account to accommodate these factual discrepancies.
▪ This humanistic attention to the subjective interpretation by prisoners of their situation marks a distinct departure from the orthodox account.
▪ The orthodox account of scientific practice represents a marriage between the two traditions just outlined.
church
▪ The monks of Valaam could be regarded as the future of the orthodox church.
medicine
▪ We therefore should aim at integration rather than separation from orthodox medicine.
▪ Many practitioners of orthodox medicine boggle over the accuracy of reflexology's diagnoses.
▪ It's complementary to orthodox medicine.
▪ In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts.
religion
▪ Why is the word regarded with some revulsion among the orthodox religions?
▪ Both are sons of prosperous professional fathers, who are devout and emphasized the importance of orthodox religion in the home.
▪ This is possibly correct where the interpretations of those two terms are consistent with orthodox religions.
view
▪ I perceived that the orthodox view of Time, as gradually established in the Western world, was a mistaken one.
▪ In the orthodox view the illness is considered to be the sum total of the symptoms and signs which it produces.
▪ All theories have difficulties to overcome, and there is certainly no need to abandon the orthodox view.
▪ He challenges the orthodox view that elderly people turn to formal agencies for help only when informal support is absent or inadequate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Orthodox Christianity teaches that Jesus was raised to life three days after he was crucified.
orthodox communism
orthodox historical research
orthodox methods of treating disease
▪ Lacan soon found himself in conflict with more orthodox psychologists.
▪ The Almoravids attempted to bring Africa back to orthodox Islamic practice.
▪ This interpretation of Karma is rejected by orthodox Hindus.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An orthodox Hindu must not touch an untouchable or anything an untouchable touches.
▪ Articles were written which could be construed as orthodox, but still interpreted by sympathisers in their intended subversive sense.
▪ Harassment of religion will only tarnish the orthodox church's reputation, while steeling the resistance of persecuted faiths.
▪ He challenges the orthodox view that elderly people turn to formal agencies for help only when informal support is absent or inadequate.
▪ The first, and most orthodox, of these was the 11-18 comprehensive school.
▪ The monks of Valaam could be regarded as the future of the orthodox church.
▪ This difference in approach constitutes the fundamental difference between the homoeopathic and orthodox systems of drug use.
▪ Women from orthodox families told me that they were not allowed to wear them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orthodox

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.]

  1. 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.

  2. According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an orthodox opinion, book, etc.

  3. Adhering to generally approved doctrine or practices; conventional. Opposed to unorthodox.

    He saluted me on both cheeks in the orthodox manner.
    --H. R. Haweis.

  4. Of or pertaining to the churches of the Eastern Christian rite, especially the Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox churches, which do not recognize the supremacy of the Pope of Rome in matters of faith.

    Note: The term orthodox differs in its use among the various Christian communions. The Greek Church styles itself the ``Holy Orthodox Apostolic Church,'' regarding all other bodies of Christians as more or less heterodox. The Roman Catholic Church regards the Protestant churches as heterodox in many points. In the United States the term orthodox is frequently used with reference to divergent views on the doctrine of the Trinity. Thus it has been common to speak of the Trinitarian Congregational churches in distinction from the Unitarian, as Orthodox.` The name is also applied to the conservative, in distinction from the ``liberal'', or Hicksite, body in the Society of Friends.
    --Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
orthodox

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). As the name of the Eastern Church, first recorded in English 1772; in reference to a branch of Judaism, first recorded 1853.

Wiktionary
orthodox

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 a long time, viable when dried to low moisture content.

WordNet
Wikipedia
Orthodox

Orthodox may refer to:

  • Orthodoxy is adherence to accepted norms, more specifically to creeds, especially in Christianity
  • Eastern Orthodox Church, a Christian church that accepts seven Ecumenical Councils
  • Oriental Orthodoxy, a Christian communion that accepts three Ecumenical Councils
  • Paleo-orthodoxy, a movement in Christianity aimed at upholding the historic teachings of the Church
  • Lutheran orthodoxy
  • Orthodox Judaism, a branch of Judaism
  • Orthodox Bahá'í Faith, a small Baha'i denomination
  • Orthodox Hinduism, a term for Sanātanī
Orthodox (Jordan)

Orthodox Basketball Club is a Jordanian professional basketball club that compete in the Jordanian Premier Basketball League and are based in Amman, Jordan.

Orthodox (album)

Orthodox is the debut studio album by American rock band Beware of Darkness, released May 7, 2013 by Bright Antenna Records. The album was made available as a digital download, CD and double vinyl.

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.