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Heretical
Heretical meaning
Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics. | Contrary to mainstream or accepted opinion.
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In it, players are thrown into the ruthless hive city of Tertium to face off against bloodthirsty enemies — a heretical cult called the Admonition, who seeks to seize control of the planet Atoma Prime.
To urge a priest to accept the heretical deviations of his superiors, he emphasizes obedience to authority and the preservation of ecclesial communion.
Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn believes that the means justify the ends, no matter how heretical those means may be.
Whether that’s more sugar, more salt, or (as heretical as it may sound) buttermilk to offset the dessert’s cavity-inducing sweetness, I can’t be certain.
Blending is another area where adventurous winemakers are breaking new ground, producing varietal combinations that would seem heretical to old-world growers.
If highways are no longer sacred but heretical, the task is to release their latent value.
Christians make up about four per cent of Pakistan's population and tend to keep a low profile in a country where Sunni Muslim militants frequently bomb targets they see as heretical, including Christians, and Sufi and Shi'ite Muslims.
That’s bad enough but her continuous prostitution of the teachings of the Catholic Church in support of her politics is heretical.
The open letter to the bishops now accuses Francis of the same heretical positions, but calls for the bishops to intervene.
She directs the phrase at ’s Ronit, the departed rabbi’s estranged daughter viewed with heretical suspicion by their tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community in London.
Abelard's treatise on the Trinity had been condemned as heretical in 1121, and he was compelled to throw his own book into the fire.
According to legend, fellow Pythagoreans were so traumatized by this discovery that they murdered Hippasus to stop him from spreading his heretical idea.
A certification ("non cultus") is made that no superstitious or heretical worship or improper cult has grown up around the servant or his or her tomb, and relics are taken.
And that has to be heretical".
And this primitive sense of 'universal' the word has never lost, although in the latter part of the second century it began to receive the secondary sense of ' orthodox ' as opposed to ' heretical '.
Arminian theology emphasised clerical authority and the individual's ability to reject or accept salvation, and was consequently viewed as heretical and a potential vehicle for the reintroduction of Roman Catholicism by its Calvinist opponents.
As Riel's religious pronouncements became increasingly heretical the clergy distanced themselves, and father Alexis André cautioned Riel against mixing religion and politics.
As these principles gained currency, books deemed apocryphal tended to become regarded as spurious and heretical writings, though books now considered deuterocanonical have been used in liturgy and theology from the first century to the present.
Both enemies and admirers sometimes called him a " Seeker ", first as a smear in England by associating Williams with a heretical movement that accepted Socinianism and universal salvation.
Bury 2005, p. 251. Heraclius tried to promote a compromise doctrine called Monothelitism ; however, this philosophy was rejected as heretical by both sides of the dispute.