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Word Meanings - HETERODOXY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines, contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church, etc.; heresy. Bp. Bull.

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  • CREAM-FACED
    White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.
  • CREMASTERIC
    Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • CREDIBLY
    In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.
  • OPINIONATOR
    An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
  • CHURCHLIKE
    Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
  • CREEP
    to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
  • CREATURELY
    Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.
  • CREATIONAL
    Of or pertaining to creation.
  • CRESYLIC
    Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc. Cresylic acid. See Cresol.
  • CREMOR
    Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.
  • CRENELATION
    The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
  • CREATION
    1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had
  • CREDIT FONCIER
    A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out
  • SYSTEMATIZE
    To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
  • CREATIONISM
    The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.
  • CREAK
    To make a prolonged sharp grating or ssqueaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak. The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. Dryden. Doors upon their hinges creaked. Tennyson.
  • CRETONNE
    1. A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and welt of flax. 2. A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft. 3. A kind of chintz with a glossy surface.
  • CREDENCE
    The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated. 4. A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting
  • UNCREATED
    1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • INCREPATION
    A chiding; rebuke; reproof. Hammond.
  • INCREMABLE
    Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe. Sir T. Browne.
  • REINCREASE
    To increase again.
  • DECRESCENDO
    With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.
  • PANCREATIN
    One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic
  • CONCRETIVELY
    In a concrete manner.
  • INCREDULOUSLY
    In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • INCREDIBLENESS
    Incredibility.
  • DISCREDITABLE
    Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.

 

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