hereticate

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verb

To denounce as heresy or a heretic.

OriginMedieval Latin haereticātus →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person hereticates · participle present hereticating · participle past hereticated · past hereticated

  1. transitiveTo denounce as heresy or a heretic.

    And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me.

    1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English
    1 more example

    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.

    c. 1629, Joseph Hall, Answer to Pope Urban his inurbanity expressed, in a brief against the Protestants of France

Origin

  1. Medieval Latinhaereticātus
  2. Englishhereticate

First attested in 1629; borrowed from Medieval Latin haereticātus, perfect passive participle of haereticō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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APA

hereticate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hereticate

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“hereticate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hereticate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hereticate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hereticate.

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