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sorry, i thought i had marked the whole entry, but only got the etymology and
the first definition.
here's the rest, noting that the word always wants to be applied to an
"opinion or doctrine", rather than an action.
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1. b. with a and pl. An instance of this; a heretical opinion or doctrine.
(For N.T. use, see note to etymology.)
1303 R. BRUNNE Handl. Synne 9671 an ys a wykkede erysye. c1340 HAMPOLE Prose
Tr. (1866) 17 Errours and herysyes. 1479 Eng. Gilds (1870) 417 Heresies and
errours, clepid openly lolladries. 1556 Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden) 20 Pecocke
that was byshoppe of Chechester..was apeched of dyvers poynttes of eryses.
1557 N.T. (Genev.) 2 Pet. ii. 1 There shalbe false teachers among you: which
pryuely shal brynge in damnable heresies [WYCL. sectes of perdicioun, TIND.,
CRANM. damnable sectes, R.V. destructive heresies (or sects of perdition)],
euen denying the Lord, that hath boght them. 1611 BIBLE Transl. Pref. 3 The
Scripture..is..a Physions-shop..of preseruatiues against poisoned heresies.
1852 C. M. YONGE Cameos (1877) IV. xii. 143 Cardinal Farnese declared there
were seven heresies in it.
2. By extension, Opinion or doctrine in philosophy, politics, science,
art, etc., at variance with those generally accepted as authoritative. Also
with a and pl.
c1385 CHAUCER L.G.W. Prol. 330 (Fairf.) That is an heresye ageyns my lawe.
1559 W. CUNINGHAM Cosmogr. Glasse 66 Bycause I will not have you to erre with
Poëtes..I will take the more diligence to drive this Heresie out of your
heade. 1616 B. JONSON Devil an Ass II. i, Against the received heresy That
England bears no dukes. 1711 SWIFT Examiner No. 40 5 All the heresies in
politics profusely scattered by the partizans of the late adminstration. 1843
MISS MITFORD in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. x. 176, I..prefer Bristol to
Bath..which I suppose, is a great heresy. 1877 E. R. CONDER Bas. Faith v. 209
The doctrines of Evolution..which it is intellectual heresy..to question.
3. In sense of Gr. (see etym.): Opinion or doctrine characterizing
particular individuals or parties; a school of thought; a sect.
1382 WYCLIF 1 Cor. xi. 19 It bihoueth heresies for to be. 1387 TREVISA Higden
(Rolls) III. 359 Aristotle gadrede meny disciples into his heresie [in suam
hæresim]. 1611 BIBLE 1 Cor. xi. 19 For there must bee also heresies [TINDALE,
CRANMER, sectes; R.V. margin, factions] among you. 1679 HOBBES Behemoth (1840)
174 Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a
private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians,
Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies. 1870 W. GRAHAM
Lect. Eph. 230 The word heresies was the common name for the different
philosophical sects, as the Stoics, the Epicureans [etc.].
4. attrib. and Comb., as heresy-ferret, -hunt, -hunter, -hunting, -monger,
mongering; heresy-stained adj.
1765 A. MACLAINE tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. (1844) I. xiii. 344 This new set of
heresy-hunters. 1814 W. TAYLOR in Monthly Rev. LXXIII. 533 Mad. Genlis, and
other heresy ferrets, are here censured. 1831 CARLYLE in Edin. Rev. LIII. Mar.
168 Scenting out Infidelity with the nose of an ancient Heresy-hunter, though
for opposite purposes. 1872 SPURGEON Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxiii. 15 If the
consciences of heresy-mongers were not seared. 1882 J. PARKER Apost. Life I.
140 One of the earliest instances..of heresy-hunting. 1891 FROUDE Divorce of
Cath. 186 More's chancellorship had been distinguished by heresy-prosecutions.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 2/1 The heresy hunt of Mr. Smith..was one of the most
protracted and determined of modern times. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 7 May 12/1 A
proceeding quite in harmony with the usual methods of heresy-hunters. 1906
Daily Chron. 16 Oct. 3/3 The heresy-hunter made him his quarry.
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