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heresiarch

noun
/hɛˈɹiːzɪɑːk/UK/həˈɹiziɑɹk/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French hérésiarque, from Ecclesiastical Latin haeresiarcha (or directly from the Latin word), from ecclesiastical Byzantine Greek αἱρεσιάρχης (hairesiárkhēs, “leader of a sect”), from Ancient Greek αἵρεσῐς (haíresĭs, “heresy”) + -ᾰ́ρχης (-ắrkhēs, “leader, ruler”), corresponding to heresy + -arch.

  1. derived from αἵρεσῐς
  2. derived from αἱρεσιάρχης
  3. derived from haeresiarcha
  4. borrowed from hérésiarque

Definitions

  1. The founder of a heresy, or a major ecclesiastical proponent of such a heresy.

    • He died in 1223, and seems to have had no successor; not is it an ascertained point that more than one such hæresiarch was ever recognized.
    • Sermons, whose writers played such dangerous tricks / Their own heresiarchs called them heretics, […]

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