Middle English Dictionary Entry
heretī̆k(e n. & adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | heretī̆k(e n. & adj. Also heretic, eretik(e, h)eritik(e, heretique, eretek(ke, erretik. |
| Etymology | OF eretique & L hæreticus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. erege & erite.
1.
(a) One who maintains an unorthodox religious opinion, a heretic; (b) one whose conduct is unbecoming a Christian; a villain, a rascal; (c) ?as adj.: heretical.
Associated quotations
a
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)19/23 : Þe heretike and þe apostate..reneyeþ hire bileaue.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)182/8 : Þe lemes of anticrist..werreþ þe guode men..ase deden..þe eretiks þe guode cristene men.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.71 : Navacius..desired to be pope, and bycam an heretyk [vr. erretik; L hæreticus] and denyede þat a synful man myȝte be saved.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.149 : His bookes schulde be i-brend of þe heretikes Arrians [L ab Arianis hæreticis].
- c1390(?c1350) SVrn.Leg.(Vrn)12/276 : Justine..Wiþ heretykes of þe secte of Arrian..On Ambrose maden a lesyng.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)17.136 : If conscience carpe þere-aȝein..Or heretykes With argumentz, þin honde þow hym shewe.
- (1402) Topias (Dgb 41)p.92 : He is callid an heretike that heresies sowith, as Arrians, Wyclyfanes, Sabellyanes, and other.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.226 : Many travelen in veyn to witen how heritikes shulden be knowen.
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)118/194 : Of eretekis schal be no memore, Ne false Cristin men.
- c1427 WBible(2) Gloss.Tit.(Dub 75)3.10 : The comoun Glose vpon this text seith that he is an heretik that, with wordis of the lawe, aȝeynseith the lawe.
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)116 : This is opounly aȝenst some heretikes that helden the contrarie opinioun.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)29/1 : Damsel, art þow non eretyke ne no loller?
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)141/1 : Sumtyme sche wept..an-oþer owr for Iewys, Sarazinys, & alle fals heretikys, þat God for hys gret goodnes xulde puttyn awey her blyndnes.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)1075 : To Chastice hem..That been Enmyes vnto hooly Cherche, On heretiques for to preve his myght.
- a1450(a1400) Athelston (Cai 175/96)481 : Þou schalt lygge in an old dyke, As it were an heretyke.
- a1450 Lond.Chron.Hrl.3775 (Hrl 3775)294 : In the same tyme was Cleydon, Skynner, Brent in Smythfeld for an Erytyk.
- a1450 3 KCol.(1) (Roy 18.A.10)79/21 : Þe þrid heretyk, Nestoryn, is confoundid, þat is aboute to diuide Cryst in to twey persones.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)260 : Thei were principal instructouris of heretikes.
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.20.12b : Ypocrites ne heretikes fele nouȝt þis meknesse, neiþer in good wil ne in affeccion.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)4/14 : Neuere into þis daie was enye man holde, iugid, or condempnid for an errer or an heretyk, but if it were founde þat his meenyng and vndirstonding whiche he had in his writyng or in his speking were errour or heresie.
- a1500 Whan no thyng was (BodPoet e.1)p.229 : Herytykes wonder of this thyng most, How God is put in the holy Host.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)678 : Theues, traytours, with false herytykes, Charmers, sorcerers, & many scismatykes.
b
- (1395) Wycl.37 Concl.(Tit D.1)5 : Prelatis or curatis that lyuen euele in the sight of the puple techen errour..and if thei don thus obstinatli..thei ben eretikis.
- (1402) Topias (Dgb 41)p.92 : We clepen hem heretikes that sacramentis sellyn..And also an heretike him shulde we holde that distrieth privyleges grauntid of the pope.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)13b/a : Cerda vel don: a barker or an heretyk or a souter.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Prelates (Corp-C 296)69 : Alle þis þei taken bi extorsions, bi þefte & symonye..where ben worse tirauntis & heretikis?
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)1307 : Vnsawghte mott ȝe worthe, And þe fals heretyke, þat emperour hym callez, That ocupyes in erroure the empyre of Rome, Sir Arthure herytage.
- a1450(c1409) Man haue hit (Dgb 102)86 : Þe ten comaundementis tan, And speke, and do not þe dede, Ne serue god in loue and drede, Is heretyk out of fay.
- a1450 Form Excom.(1) (Cld A.2)65 : Alle eretekkes þat done wyttyngly aȝeynus þe lawe of criste.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)55 : How are þey not heretyks? namly, sin þe word of dede is more effectuos in werkyng þen þe word of þe mouþ.
- a1500 GRom.(Add 9066)14 : Thise ben heretikes, of hem that saiden, that is gretly to sorow.
c
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Tit.3.10 : Schonye thou a man heretyk [WB(2): eretik], aftir oon and the secunde coreccioun.
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)Tit.3.10 : A man heretyc [L hereticum]..eschewe þou.