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adj. - Characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards.

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  • Protestant Christianity as heretical, that is, being against Roman doctrine.
  • They are termed heretical on account of their revolt from the jurisdiction of Constantinople.
  • While Infancy Thomas was rebuked by a few heresiarchs, the Protegangelion never was called heretical that I know of.
  • It was rejected, indeed, by certain heretical sects in the second and third centuries -- by the Ebionites, the Severians (see Eusebius,
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