Orthodox

adjective

1. 1

   Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Churches collectively.

2. 2

   Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.

3. 3

   Of or pertaining to Orthodox Judaism.

4. 4

   Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Quakers, a group of Quakers (subdivided into the Wilburite, Gurneyite and Beaconite branches) who split with the Hicksite Quakers due to favoring adopting mainstream Protestant orthodoxy.

   [...which] Doherty hypothesized as the controlling variable for predicting who would become Orthodox or who would be Hicksite.

noun

1. 1

   An Orthodox Christian.

   The Greek Orthodox population of the 62 bishoprics in 1886 numbered 65,549,096. to which the Orthodoxes of the army and navy must be added.

2. 2

   rareAn Orthodox Jew.

Forms

plural

Orthodoxes

comparative

more Orthodox

superlative

most Orthodox