Definition of Cacodoxy

1. n. Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy.

Definition of Cacodoxy

1. Noun. Incorrect doctrine or opinions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cacodoxy

1. a bad doctrine [n CACODOXIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cacodoxy

cacks
caco-
caco-2 cells
cacodaemon
cacodaemoniacal
cacodaemonic
cacodaemonical
cacodaemons
cacodemon
cacodemonic
cacodemonical
cacodemonomania
cacodemonomanias
cacodemons
cacodoxical
cacodoxy (current term)
cacodyl
cacodyl group
cacodyl oxide
cacodyl radical
cacodylate
cacodylic
cacodylic acid
cacodyls
cacodæmon
cacodæmonic
cacodæmons
cacoepies
cacoepist
cacoepistic

Literary usage of Cacodoxy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1892)
"... the Commonitorium datum Posidonio * Cyril shows what sense he wishes to fix on the utterances of Nestorius. '' The faith, or rather the ' cacodoxy ' of ..."

2. Christ in History: Or, The Central Power Among Men by Robert Turnbull (1854)
"... and less anxious, therefore, to favor or deny orthodoxy, heterodoxy, or what Luther ca]ls cacodoxy, than to establish the simple truth. ..."

3. The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South by Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1854)
"... and that he has been less anxious " to favor or deny orthodoxy, heterodoxy, or, what Luther calls cacodoxy, than to establish simple truth. ..."

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