单词 | orthodoxy |
释义 | orthodoxyn. 1. The quality or character of being orthodox; belief in or agreement with doctrines, opinions, or practices currently held to be right or correct, esp. in religious matters. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > orthodoxy > [noun] the faithc1384 truthc1384 soundness1583 orthodoxy1630 orthodoxness1644 orthodoxism1645 orthodoxalness1654 orthodoxality1660 symmetricalness1684 the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [noun] > adherence to accepted beliefs soundness1583 orthodoxy1630 1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 261 Dying men, especially of such orthodoxie, worth, and fame as he, speake truth. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 253 Blam'd for too great a Rigorism in their over zealous Orthodoxy against the Arians. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 281 Orthodoxy lies in rectitude of sentiment upon all branches of our duty, not in the characteric doctrines of any Church, however infallible. 1803 Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 116 Saints, a set of men who have great pretensions to particular sanctity of manners and zeal for orthodoxy. 1823 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. VI. 355 By these Articles Henry had now fixed the landmarks of English orthodoxy. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 105 Lanfranc was again present as the champion of orthodoxy. 1935 E. Gill Let. 31 Jan. (1947) 321 I rejoice..to have your assurance as to orthodoxy, decency & general o.k.ness of the..‘article’. 1979 Maclean's 26 Feb. 32/1 A new generation of Moslem women are..choosing to cloak their new intellectual freedom in the ancient fabric of orthodoxy. 1994 Homiletic & Pastoral Rev. June 74/1 One still hears leaders demanding obedience and making obedience the touchstone or criterion for orthodoxy. 2. a. The body of opinions, doctrines, or beliefs held to be orthodox by a particular religion, society, or group. ΚΠ 1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 170 His Sermon is extant..some Heads and Points of it I gave you..as a Pinne-paper of your modern Orthodoxy. 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 48 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The first Father of the Homousian Orthodoxy. 1771 J. W. Fletcher Checks in Wks. (1795) II. 277 Upon the scheme of what you call the ‘Weslean orthodoxy’, Christ is really the Saviour of all men. 1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2221 The old-fashioned, scholastically developed Lutheran orthodoxy. 1927 A. Huxley Proper Stud. 19 The prophets of the democratic-humanitarian religion have at all times..denounced the upholders of Christian orthodoxy as anti-scientific. 1966 I. Deutscher Marxism in our Time (1972) ii. 36 Trotsky..represents the Marxist school of thought in it's purity, as it existed before it's debasement by the social-democratic and Stalinist orthodoxies. 1990 Jrnl. Semitic Stud. 35 335 Dissent from Sunni orthodoxy would have deprived them of any more claim than the next man to rule their ancestral heritage. b. An orthodox opinion or belief. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > orthodoxy > [noun] > instance orthodoxy1809 1809 G. Ellis in S. Smiles Publisher & Friends (1891) I. vii. 159 A dull prosing piece of orthodoxy may have its admirers. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 9 The free-thinker [would fain pass] for a person with his own orthodoxies if you only knew them. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist iv. §4. 254 The fruitless lives, the barren orthodoxies..are at once to undergo the most searching scrutiny. 1910 Nation 28 May 307/2 The fad of today is the orthodoxy of tomorrow. 1968 A. Storr Human Aggression (1976) vi. 81 Yet the history, both of religions and political ideologies, clearly shows that beliefs are bound to become modified in the course of time, and that the heresy of one generation may well become the orthodoxy of the next. 1988 Nature 7 Apr. 492/1 The union of evolution theory and population genetics is a long-established orthodoxy. 3. Usually with capital initial. Eastern Orthodox Christianity; the body of doctrine held by the Eastern Orthodox Church; the whole community of Orthodox Christians. See orthodox adj. 3. Feast of Orthodoxy n. [compare German Fest des Orthodoxie (sic) (1836 in the passage translated in quot. 1850)] a festival of the Eastern Orthodox Church, commemorating the restoration of icons in churches in 843. Orthodoxy Sunday n. [compare Byzantine Greek κυριακὴ τῆς ὀρθοδοξίας, French dimanche de l'orthodoxie (1704)] the first Sunday in Lent, when the Feast of Orthodoxy is celebrated. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > [noun] > first Sunday in > Greek Orthodox festival on Feast of Orthodoxy1728 Orthodoxy Sunday1891 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Orthodoxy, or Feast of Orthodoxy, is also a solemn Feast in the Greek Church, instituted by the Empress Theodora; still held on the first Sunday of Lent, in memory of the Restoration of Images in Churches, which had been taken down by the Iconoclastes. 1850 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church VI. 371 The 19th of February, the first Sunday of Lent in the year 842, was the day appointed for this celebration... This day was ever afterwards observed in the Greek church as a high festival, called the Feast of Orthodoxy. 1891 Tablet 8 Aug. 211/2 Heresies which are solemnly anathematised on ‘Orthodoxy Sunday’. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 562/2 He did his utmost to prepare for the realization of this ideal by..fostering Eastern Orthodoxy at the expense of other confessions. 1963 T. Ware Orthodox Church ii. 39 The final victory of the Holy Images in 843 is known as ‘The Triumph of Orthodoxy’, and is commemorated in a special service celebrated on ‘Orthodoxy Sunday’, the first Sunday in Lent. 1978 M. Doak Orthodox Church ii. 24 In the West, however, scholars fleeing to Italy from fallen Constantinople brought a ray of light: the rediscovery of Orthodoxy. 1992 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 5 Oct. 19 They hold joint services on special occasions such as Thanksgiving and the Feast of Orthodoxy. 4. Usually with capital initial. Orthodox Judaism; the whole community of Orthodox Jews. See orthodox adj. 4. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Judaism > [noun] > orthodoxy orthodoxy1888 1888 Jewish Q. Rev. 1 55 The Rabbis..would have either suspected the man's orthodoxy, or would have denied that his views were really what he professed them to be. 1899 B. Drachman Nineteen Lett. Ben Uziel p. xvii Hirsch set up that view of Judaism called in Germany ‘Denkgläubigkeit’, which we may translate as ‘intellectual or enlightened Orthodoxy’. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 9/2 [Abba Mari] called upon the famous rabbi Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona to come to the aid of orthodoxy. 1966 H. Kemelman Saturday Rabbi went Hungry (1967) viii. 51 Some of the older congregants brought up in Orthodoxy. 1995 Independent 13 Jan. 3/2 The Masorti movement was founded in 1962 by Rabbi Louis Jacobs, until then a pillar of Orthodoxy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1630 |
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