adj. 1. Not in agreement with accepted beliefs, especially in church doctrine or dogma. 2. Holding unorthodox opinions. [Greek heterodoxos : hetero-, hetero- + doxa, opinion (from dokein, to think; see dek- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] |
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