Orthodox

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Orthodox \Or"tho*dox\, a. [L. orthodoxus, Gr. 'orqo`doxos;
     'orqo`s right, true + do`xa opinion, dokei^n to think, seem;
     cf. F. orthodoxe. See {Ortho-}, {Dogma}.]
     1. Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious
        doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing
        the doctrines taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to


        {heretical} and {heterodox}; as, an orthodox Christian.
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     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.
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     3. Adhering to generally approved doctrine or practices;
        conventional. Opposed to {unorthodox}.
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              He saluted me on both cheeks in the orthodox manner.
                                                    --H. R.
                                                    Haweis.
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     4. Of or pertaining to the churches of the Eastern Christian
        rite, especially the Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox
        churches, which do not recognize the supremacy of the Pope
        of Rome in matters of faith.
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     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Orthodox
       adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism; "Orthodox
              Judaism" [syn: {Jewish-Orthodox}]
       2: adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of
          the world" [ant: {unorthodox}]
       3: of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox
          Church [syn: {Eastern Orthodox}, {Russian Orthodox}, {Greek
          Orthodox}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "orthodox":
     Christian, Orthodox Jew, Sunni Muslim, accepted, accordant,
     accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, anal, approved, authentic,
     authoritative, authorized, being done, bourgeois, button-down,
     canonical, canonist, comme il faut, common, compulsive, concordant,
     conformable, conformist, conservative, conventional, correct,
     corresponding, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, die-hard,
     doctrinal, dour, established, evangelical, faithful, firm, fogyish,
     formal, formalistic, fundamentalist, hard, harmonious, hidebound,
     impliable, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, inexorable,
     inflexible, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, kosher, literal,
     meet, muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, of the faith, official,
     old-line, ordinary, orthodox Christian, orthodoxical, orthodoxist,
     pedantic, plastic, popular, precisianistic, prevailing, prevalent,
     procrustean, proper, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic,
     reactionary, received, recognized, regular, relentless, right,
     rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctioned,
     scriptural, seemly, sound, square, standard, stiff, straight,
     straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, stuffy, textual, textualist,
     textuary, the orthodox, tory, traditional, traditionalist,
     traditionalistic, true, true believer, true-blue, unbending,
     uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, uptight
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ORTHODOX, n.  An ox wearing the popular religious joke.