hereticate

English

Etymology

From Latin haereticatus, past participle of haereticare.

Verb

hereticate (third-person singular simple present hereticates, present participle hereticating, simple past and past participle hereticated)

  1. (transitive) To denounce as heresy or a heretic.
    • 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English:
      And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me.
    • c. 1629 Joseph Hall, Answer to Pope Urban his inurbanity expressed, in a brief against the Protestants of France
      If that great Chancellor of Paris were now alive, he would freely teach his Sorbonne, as he once did, that it is not in the Pope's power, that I may use his own word, to hereticate any proposition.
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