HERETICATE

Etymology

Verb

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

(transitive) To denounce as heresy or a heretic.

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.

Source: Wiktionary


He*ret"i*cate, v. t. Etym: [LL. haereticatus, p. p. of haereticare.]

Definition: To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical. Bp. Hall. And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me. Fitzed. Hall.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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