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Word Meanings - ORTHODOX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to Ant: heretical and Ant: heterodox; as, an orthodox Christian. 2. According or

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1. Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to Ant: heretical and Ant: 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. Approved; conventional. He saluted me on both cheeks in the orthodox manner. H. R. Haweis. 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.

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  • INSPIRING
    Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.
  • INSPIRATOR
    A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2.
  • SCRIPTURALLY
    In a scriptural manner.
  • INSPIRED
    1. Breathed in; inhaled. 2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers. 3. Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine
  • ORTHODOXLY
    In an orthodox manner; with soundness of faith. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • INSPIRATIONIST
    One who holds to inspiration.
  • SCRIPTURALNESS
    Quality of being scriptural.
  • INSPIRATION
    A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth;
  • INSPIRABLE
    Capable of being inspired or drawn into the lungs; inhalable; respirable; admitting inspiration. Harvey.
  • ORTHODOXALLY
    Orthodoxly. Milton
  • BIBLICALITY
    The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject.
  • REVEAL
    1. To make known ; to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller. 2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine
  • ORTHODOXASTICAL
    Orthodox.
  • ORTHODOXICAL
    Pertaining to, or evincing, orthodoxy; orthodox.
  • ORTHODOXY
    1. Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy. Basil himself bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy. Waterland.
  • REVEALABLE
    Capable of being revealed. -- Re*veal"a*ble*ness, n.
  • ORTHODOXAL
    Pertaining to, or evincing, orthodoxy; orthodox. Milton.
  • REVEALABILITY
    The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness.
  • INSPIRE
    1. To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; -- opposed to expire. 2. To breathe; to blow gently. And when the wind amongst them did inspire, They wavèd like a penon wide dispread. Spenser.
  • REVEALER
    One who, or that which, reveals.
  • ANTISCRIPTURAL
    Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.
  • HYPERORTHODOXY
    Orthodoxy pushed to excess.
  • IRREVEALABLE
    Incapable of being revealed. -- Ir`re*veal"a*bly, adv.
  • REINSPIRE
    To inspire anew. Milton.

 

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