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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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