And the said Tortebras has recognised the said Abyss heretic as having been in his house in company with the said demoniacal spirit, and is suspected of having lent his aid to her sorcery.
There was a Carmelite friar, Thomas Conecte, who, previous to his being burnt as a heretic at Rome, in 1434, excited the admiration of all Flanders by his vehement sermons against the luxury of the women.
Heretic books are to be diligently searched for throughout the province; and all magistrates and communities are to be warned that any favor or protection shown to heretics will be visited with forfeiture of municipal rights.
In 1484 Sprenger says positively that while the recanting heretic is to be imprisoned, the sorcerer, even if penitent, is to be put to death, indicating that by this time there was no longer any question on the subject.
The ministers of thisheretic church have no shame in publicly keeping concubines, and in selling Christ for money in the sacraments.
Naples confiscating the property of the Bishop of Trivento, just dead, as that of a hereticbecause he had adhered to Clement VII.
His marvellous career thus furnishes the exact antithesis of that of his Ferrarese compatriot, Armanno Pongilupo--the one was venerated as a saint and then burned as a heretic, the other was burned as a heretic and then venerated as a saint.
Paschal himself became a heretic when, in 1111, yielding to the violence of Henry V.
The last time there had been a clash of arms in the cathedral it had been the Count de Gobignon and that heretic preacher, Daoud thought.
If the heretic sea captain did not manage to kill them, in three or four days he would be in France, on his way to find King Louis.
Surely, Your Signory does not see any wrong in forcing a heretic to do a good turn for the pope and the king.
Even the Christian jurisprudists of the eighteenth century defended negro slavery, which it was reserved for the sceptical Montesquieu and the arch-heretic Voltaire to condemn.
And as faith was essential to salvation, and heresy led straight to hell, the elimination of the heretic was in the interest of the people he might divert from the road to paradise.
The heretic in religion, while resenting outside control, by his very perception of the vast and far-reaching consequences of human action, is often chained to "the most timid sanctities of life.
If you differ from them ever so little, they call upon you to recant; it you refuse to do so, they will brand you as a heretic and "thunder out an excommunication.
Some of them even pretended to be the Messiah, one of these being burnt as a heretic at Erfurt.
The emperor remarked to his neighbor, "This man would never succeed in making a heretic of me.
The Emperor was at last induced to fix a day on which Alexander was to receive the heretic or be driven from his see.
The good news was instantly made known to the heretic and his friends, and Arius hastened to Constantinople, where he was admitted into the Emperor's presence.
In just that way the orthodox of old regarded the heretic and his blasphemies.
Heresy-hunting is, of course, one manifestation of tribal animosity; and a heretic is the person who has the insufferable impudence to disagree with us.
To the fifth article he answered, that he denied it; that he trusted in God, and a heretic could not say such things.
O noble house of France," he exclaimed, "which wast ever wont to be protectress of the faith, how hast thou been abused to ally thyself with a heretic and schismatic!
Sir John Oldcastle, the "Good Lord Cobham," after four years' hiding is captured and burned as a heretic in London.
Well, this heretic sultan is my enemy whom Satan protects, for even my fedais have failed to kill him, and perhaps there will be war on account of you.
This heretic reunited to his partisans, and commenced spreading his errors with even more earnestness than before.
If the principles of France sway them, the torrent that will overwhelm the heretic will also sweep away the faith.
In September De Berghes went out from office, having distinguished himself by not putting a single heretic to death.
The teaching that faith need not be kept with a heretic was well established by the church in the thirteenth century.
I was convinced of the tender heart of the empress-queen, and that she would graciously try once more, in her Christian mercy, to convert such an old barbarian and heretic as I am.
That settled the question, and the church not only indorsed this book but declared that whoever believed either less or more was a heretic and would be dealt with as such.
Every man who could read or write was suspected of being a heretic in those days.
Bertram lightly; "there was never a heretic at Chad yet, and never will be one, I trow.
That such a man should be dubbed a heretic is vile and wicked; and right glad were all to hear that he had escaped the malice of his enemies, and fled where they could not reach him.
They are all ready with a story that they are on the watch for some heretic in hiding in the woods.
You know well that the penalty of hiding and harbouring a heretic is little short of that of heresy itself.
He was a godly and a saintly man, and no more heretic than thou or I.
And I tell thee freely, if it be found that thou hast lent thine aid in harbouring a heretic and disobedient monk, thy lands will be forfeit, if not thy life, and the Lord of Mortimer will be likewise Lord of Chad.
Those priests are as crafty as foxes when the heretic leaven gets into them.
When men turn heretic they seem to be indued with all the cunning of the devil!
Yea, that is what the heretic Lollards do--read and expound the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue and after their own fashion," said Bertram.
I would fain earn my forgiveness for having shielded one heretic by helping to give up another.
Are you and your dame rearing up a heretic brood, to cumber the land in days to come?
Howbeit there be many there to testify that the man was at that time but hawking his wares, and my sons could not know that he was a secret heretic and Lollard.
He was arrested by the pope's order in 1497 and condemned as a heretic and despiser of the Holy See.
The assertion of the suspected person that he was not a heretic did not receive any attention, for it was assumed that he would naturally deny his guilt, as would any other criminal.
Upon arriving at Worms the case of Luther was at once forced upon Charles' attention by the assiduous papal representative, Aleander, who was indefatigable in urging him to outlaw the heretic without further delay.
Every one was forbidden to give the heretic food, drink, or shelter, and required to seize him and deliver him to the emperor.
Of course it could exercise no jurisdiction over the heretic English allies; it has left no traces of its activity and was replaced by a revival of the episcopal cognizance of heresy.
Wakeley was a heretic wealthy doctor who led the campaign in Britain against the monopoly of surgical training and practice held by the Royal College of Surgeons of London.
He was declared a medical heretic by the Paris Faculty of Medicine and derivative bleeding was forbidden by an act of the French parliament.
The heretic Englishman is not looked upon with that horror now, as it was formerly the fashion to paint him.
So great were religious prejudices not many years ago, that a lady would have hesitated, and her family interfered to prevent a marriage with one of "heretic creed.
For a crime which does not taint her purity our judges have to-day condemned to death a beautiful and spotless maiden--a stranger, and at the same time a Greek and a heretic Melchite.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heretic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
