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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heterodox \Het"er*o*dox\, adjective [Gr. ?; ? other + ? opinion; cf. F. h['e]t['e]rodoxe.]
1. Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects.
Raw and indigested, heterodox, preaching. --Strype.
2. Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; -- said of persons. --Macaulay. -- {Het"er*o*dox'ly}, adverb -- {Het"er*o*dox'ness}, noun
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heterodox \Het"er*o*dox\, noun An opinion opposed to some accepted standard. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
heterodox
adjective: characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards [syn: {dissident}, {heretical}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "heterodox": Albigensian, Arian, Bohemian, Catharist, Donatist, Ebionitist, Erastian, Gnostic, Jansenist, Jansenistic, Jovinianist, Jovinianistic, Lollard, Manichaean, Monophysite, Monophysitic, Montanist, Montanistic, Pelagian, Sabellian, Waldensian, Wyclifite, aberrant, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, antinomian, apocryphal, askew, astray, at fault, awry, beat, beside the mark, breakaway, corrupt, deceptive, defective, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, dissident, distorted, emanationist, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, far out, faultful, faulty, flawed, free and easy, fringy, heretical, hippie, hylotheist, hylotheistic, illogical, illusory, individualistic, informal, inner-directed, kinky, maverick, nonconformist, nonorthodox, not cricket, not done, not kosher, not right, not true, off, off the track, offbeat, original, out, pantheist, pantheistic, peccant, perverse, perverted, schismatic, sectarian, self-contradictory, straying, unaccepted, unapproved, unauthentic, unauthoritative, uncanonical, unconventional, unfactual, unfashionable, unorthodox, unproved, unscriptural, unsound, untrue, way out, wide, wrong
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