orthodox
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
orthodox/ˈɔːθədɒks/
▶adjective
- 1 conforming with traditional or generally accepted beliefs.
- 2 conventional; normal.
- 3 (usu. Orthodox) relating to Orthodox Judaism or the Orthodox Church.
– derivatives
orthodoxly adverb.
orthodoxly adverb.
– origin ME: from Gk orthodoxos, from orthos ‘straight or right’ + doxa ‘opinion’.
'orthodox' also found in these Oxford entries:
Abba
- archimandrite
- beatitude
- bema
- bien pensant
- bugger
- Byzantine
- chrism
- chrismation
- Church Slavonic
- Conservative Judaism
- Cyrillic
- deacon
- dissent
- Dopper
- Dormition
- Eastern Church
- Ecumenical Patriarch
- eparchy
- exarch
- Ge'ez
- Greek Orthodox Church
- Haredi
- heresy
- heterodox
- Hinayana
- holiness
- Khalsa
- Latin Church
- liturgy
- Melkite
- metropolitan
- minor orders
- Orthodox Church
- Orthodox Judaism
- orthodoxy
- parapsychology
- patriarch
- payess
- pope
- priest
- prothesis
- Reform Judaism
- Russian Orthodox Church
- sacrament
- scheduled caste
- sect
- Trisagion
- true-blue
