Meanings
alternative obsolete schismatick
- not comparablelifestyleOf or pertaining to a schism.
The pontiff had made a last-ditch effort to persuade the society to halt the ordinations, calling them a “schismatic act” and a “sin of extreme gravity”.
2026 July 1, Angela Giuffrida, “Fears of Catholic schism as defiant sect ordains ultra-conservative bishops”, in The Guardian, →ISSN - not comparableentertainmentOf or pertaining to a schisma.
plural schismatics · alternative obsolete schismatick
- lifestyleA person involved in a schism.
He semeth a sysmatyke Or els an heretike, For fayth in hym is faynte.
c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 17–191 more example
Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 267
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekσχισματικός
- Latinschismaticus
- Middle Frenchscismatique
- Middle Englishscismatik
- Englishschismatic
From Middle English scismatik with etymological respelling, from Middle French scismatique, from Latin schismaticus, from Ancient Greek σχισματικός (skhismatikós), from σχίσμα (skhísma, “cleft, division”). The music sense is based on schisma, from the same ultimate Greek source; compare schism.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic اِنْشِقَاقِيّ
- اِنْشِقَاقِيّ (inšiqāqiyy)religion: of or pertaining to a schism
Bulgarian разколнически, разколник
- разколнически (razkolničeski)religion: of or pertaining to a schism
- разколник (razkolnik)religion: person involved in a schism
- разколница (razkolnica)religion: person involved in a schism
Catalan cismàtic, cismàtic
- cismàticreligion: of or pertaining to a schism
- cismàticreligion: person involved in a schism
- cismàticareligion: person involved in a schism
Esperanto skisma, skismano
- skismareligion: of or pertaining to a schism
- skismanoreligion: person involved in a schism
- skismaninoreligion: person involved in a schism
- skismuloreligion: person involved in a schism
- skismulinoreligion: person involved in a schism
French schismatique, schismatique
- schismatiquereligion: of or pertaining to a schism
- schismatiquereligion: person involved in a schism
German schismatisch, Schismatiker
- schismatischreligion: of or pertaining to a schism
- Schismatikerreligion: person involved in a schism
- Schismatikerinreligion: person involved in a schism
Polish schizmatycki, schizmatyk
- schizmatyckireligion: of or pertaining to a schism
- schizmatykreligion: person involved in a schism
- schizmatyczkareligion: person involved in a schism
Portuguese cismático, cismático
- cismáticoreligion: of or pertaining to a schism
- cismáticoreligion: person involved in a schism
- cismáticareligion: person involved in a schism
Russian схизмати́ческий, схизма́тик
- схизмати́ческий (sxizmatíčeskij)religion: of or pertaining to a schism
- схизма́тик (sxizmátik)religion: person involved in a schism
- схизмати́чка (sxizmatíčka)religion: person involved in a schism
- раско́льник (raskólʹnik)religion: person involved in a schism
- раско́льница (raskólʹnica)religion: person involved in a schism
Spanish cismático, cismático
- cismáticoreligion: of or pertaining to a schism
- cismáticoreligion: person involved in a schism
- cismáticareligion: person involved in a schism
Cite this entry
schismatic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schismatic
“schismatic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schismatic. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “schismatic,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schismatic.
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