Heresy - Law Dictionary Search Results
Hereticate
To decide to be heresy or a heretic to denounce as a heretic or heretical
Heretic
One who holds to a heresy one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion
Heresiography
A treatise on heresy
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Heresiarchy
A chief or great heresy
Heresiarch
A leader in heresy the chief of a sect of heretics
Extirpation
as the extirpation of weeds from land of evil from the heart of a race of men of heresy
Extirpate
destroy wholly as to extirpate weeds to extirpate a tumor to extirpate a sect to extirpate error or heresy
Heresiographer
One who writes on heresies
High Commission Court
peace of the Church by reforming and correcting the ecclesiastical state and persons, and all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempt's, and enormities. The powers of this tribunal were directed to tyrannical and unconstitutional pur-poses;
Inquisitor
esp., one who examines another in a harsh or hostile manner (3) An officer authorised to inquire into heresies; esp., an officer of the Spanish Inquisition, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 796
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