Orthodox
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orthodox¹
- /ˈɔːθədɒks/ UK
- /ˈɔɹθədɑks/ US
Where it comes from
From Late Middle English orthodoxe, from Middle French orthodoxe and its etymon Late Latin orthodoxus, from Ancient Greek ὀρθόδοξος (orthódoxos), from ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”). Displaced native Old English wuldorlīċ.
adjective more orthodox · most orthodox
- Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology. Five important modifications were made by the Pietists to the orthodox doctrine of justification, each corresponding to a distinctive aspect of the movement's agenda.
- Adhering to whatever is customary, traditional, or generally accepted. She tattled on: first to one, then to the other—then to all, till she had tattled herself out of breath;—and then the orthodox half hour had expired, and the bell was rung, and the carriage ordered, and Mrs. Hare rose to depart.
- Of the eastern churches, Eastern Orthodox.
- Of a branch of Judaism.
- Of pollen, seed, or spores: viable for a long time; viable when dried to low moisture content.
Similar: halal, homodox, kosher, orthodox, by the book, allowed, conventional, customary, natural, official, proper, routine
Orthodox²
adjective more Orthodox · most Orthodox
- Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Churches collectively.
- Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.
- Of or pertaining to Orthodox Judaism.
- Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Quakers, a group of Quakers (subdivided into the Wilburite, Gurneyite and Beaconite branches) who split with the Hicksite Quakers due to favoring adopting mainstream Protestant orthodoxy. [...which] Doherty hypothesized as the controlling variable for predicting who would become Orthodox or who would be Hicksite.
noun Orthodox · Orthodoxes
- An Orthodox Christian. The Greek Orthodox population of the 62 bishoprics in 1886 numbered 65,549,096. to which the Orthodoxes of the army and navy must be added.
- An Orthodox Jew.
