| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | her·e·tic |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  h r  -tk |
| NOUN: | A person who holds controversial opinions, especially one who publicly dissents from the officially accepted dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. | | ADJECTIVE: | Heretical. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English heretik, from Old French heretique, from Late Latin haereticus, from Greek hairetikos, able to choose, factious, from hairetos, chosen, from haireisthai, to choose. See heresy.
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