orthodoxal

English

Etymology

orthodox +‎ -al

Adjective

orthodoxal (comparative more orthodoxal, superlative most orthodoxal)

  1. Pertaining to, or evincing, orthodoxy; orthodox.
    • 1642, John Milton, chapter III, in The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 234:
      Yet if ſuch like practiſes [...] have not exempted both her and her preſent members from being judg'd to be Antichriſtian in all orthodoxal eſteem,

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for orthodoxal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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