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Hereticate

He-ret′i-cate

,
Verb.
T.
[LL.
haereticatus
, p. p. of
haereticare
.]
To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical.
Bp. Hall.
And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to
hereticate
me.
Fitzed. Hall.

Definition 2024


hereticate

hereticate

English

Verb

hereticate (third-person singular simple present hereticates, present participle hereticating, simple past and past participle hereticated)

  1. (transitive) To denounce as heresy or a heretic.
    • Fitzed. Hall
      And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me.
    • Bishop Joseph Hall
      If that great Chancellor of Paris were now alive, he would freely teach his Sorbonne, as he once did, that it is not in the Pope's power, that I may use his own word, to hereticate any proposition.