1. Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the
decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; — said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp.
upon theological subjects.
Raw and indigested, heterodox, preaching.
Strype. 2. Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; — said of persons. Macaulay.
— Het"er*o*dox`ly, adv. — Het"er*o*dox`ness, n.
Heterodox
(Het"er*o*dox), n. An opinion opposed to some accepted standard. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Heterodoxal
(Het"er*o*dox`al) a. Not orthodox. Howell.
Heterodoxy
(Het"er*o*dox`y) n. [Gr. : cf. F. hétérodoxie.] An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines,
contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church,
etc.; heresy. Bp. Bull.
Heterodromous
(Het`er*od"ro*mous) a. [Hetero- + Gr. to run.]
1. (Bot.) Having spirals of changing direction. Gray.
2. (Mech.) Moving in opposite directions; — said of a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the
actuating force are on opposite sides of the fulcrum or axis.
Heterogamous
(Het`er*og"a*mous) a. [Hetero- + Gr. ga`mos marriage: cf. F. hétérogame.] (Bot. &
Biol.) (a) The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and
pistils, as in the aster. (b) Characterized by heterogamy.
Heterogamy
(Het`er*og"a*my) n. [See Heterogamous.]
1. (Bot.) The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; — opposed to orthogamy.
2. (Biol.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and
a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; — in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual
generations alternate. Claus & Sedgwick.
