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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Orthodox \Or"tho*dox\, adjective [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.
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.
3. Adhering to generally approved doctrine or practices; conventional. Opposed to {unorthodox}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
He saluted me on both cheeks in the orthodox manner. --H. R. Haweis.
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. [PJC]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Orthodox
adjective
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, noun An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
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