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hereticate, v.|hɪˈrɛtɪkeɪt|
[f. med.L. hæreticāt-, ppl. stem of hæreticāre, f. hæretic-us heretic.]
1. trans. To pronouce heretical.
1629Bp. Hall Answ. Urban's Inurb. 9 The Pope hath not power (that I may vse his owne word) to hereticate any Proposition. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. iii. (1852) 512 Arbitrary and hereticating anathemas. 1873F. Hall Mod. Eng. 19 note, Let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me, as threatening to abet some new-fangled form of religious heterodoxy.
2. To make a heretic of: applied (by opponents) to the ceremony of death-bed inauguration (Consolamentum) reported to have been practised by the Albigenses in the 12th c.
1731S. Chandler tr. Limborch's Hist. Inquis. I. i. viii. 54 'Tis reported of Petrus Sancii, that being called to hereticate a certain sick Woman, she was not then hereticated; because he did not think it proper upon Account of her not being weak enough. And afterwards..Petrus Sancii did not hereticate her, because she recovered. 1832S. R. Maitland Albigenses & Wald. xii. 459 Could Peter Auterius really believe that he saved the souls of those whom he hereticated? 1883Sat. Rev. 31 Mar. 404/1.
Hence heretiˈcation [med.L. hæreticātio], the action of hereticating (in both senses); esp. that attributed to the Albigenses. heˈreticator, one who hereticates or denounces heresy.
1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Heb. i. Annot., The Hereticators will quarrel with it. 1731S. Chandler tr. Limborch's Hist. Inquis. I. i. viii. 53 Others [Albigenses] only enter'd into a Covenant with these perfect ones..that at the End of Life they would be received into their Sect. This Reception is often called Heretication..This Admission..was called Spiritual Baptism, The Consolation, The Reception, and Good End. 1832S. R. Maitland Albigenses & Wald. ix. 232 note, Their absolution was general, and performed by the imposition of hands, in the ceremony of heretication. 1880Guardian 21 Apr. 520 The right of excommunication was instanced in the heretication of the Artemonites, a sort of premature Arians. 1883Sat. Rev. 31 Mar. 404/1 They [Albigensians] adopted..a ceremony of imposition of hands, variously designated consolamentum, or ‘heretication’, followed by the Endura or fasting to death. |