herein 
Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and Increase ; 
Without this, folly, age, ancf cold decay. 
Shak. t Sonnets, xi. 
hereinafter (her-in'af'ter), adv. [< herein + 
after. ] Afterward in this (statement, narrative, 
or document): referring to something after- 
ward to be named or described. 
Part of the olde Temple is yet standing, and many Monu- 
ments of great antiquitie, as herein after shall be shewed. 
Webbe, Travels (ed. Arber), p. 22. 
A few favored localities hereinafter to be named. 
Lathrup, Spanish Vistas, p. 203. 
hereinbefore (her-in'be-f6r')> adv. [< herein + 
before.] Before in this (statement, narrative, 
or document) : referring to something already 
named or described. 
Many authors not hereinbefore reviewed come properly 
within our annals. The Century, XXXIV. 906. 
hereinto (her-in'tci), </). [< 7ierl + into.] Into 
this. Hooker. [Bare.] 
heremitt, An obsolete form of hermit, ap- 
proximating eremite. 
heremiticalt (her-e-mit'i-kal), a. An obsolete 
form of eremitical. 
The keremeticall profession was onelie allowed of In 
Britaine vntill the coming of Augustine the monke. 
Holinshed, Descrip. of Britain, i. 9. 
herent, . A Middle English form of hairen. 
herenacht, . Same as erenach. 
bareness (her'nes), . [< here 1 + -ness.'] The 
quality or fact of being in this place, or of be- 
ing present. [Bare.] 
Its [the earth's] oppressive solidity, its obtrusive here- 
ness. O. Macdonald, What's Mine's Mine, p. 334. 
her enlist, a. [A form occurring, with a var. here- 
mus, in the following quotation. It is obvious- 
ly corrupt ; some manuscripts substitute vertu- 
ouse (virtuous), and mod. editions read Itevenes 
(heaven's). It probably stands for *Herynes 
that is, Erinyes, the Furies : see Erinys.] See 
etymology. 
Have mercy on me, thou herenus queene. 
Chaucer, Complaint to Pity, L 92. 
hereof (her-ov'), adv. [< ME. hereof, herof(= 
Dan. 7im</= Sw. Mraf) ; < here 1 + of.'] 1. Of 
this; concerning this. 
The kyng, vor pyte herof, bygan to wepe sore. 
Robert of Gloucester, p. 178. 
And so here-of spake thei day be day. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 186. 
This brought to pass, the lords return with speed, 
The parliament hereof to certify. 
Daniell, Civil Wars, ii. 
2. Prom this ; herefrom. 
Hereof comes it, that Prince Harry is valiant. 
Shah., 2 Hen. IV., Iv. a 
hereon (her-on'), adv. [< ME. heron; < here 1 + 
on.'] On or upon this. 
If we should strictly insist hereon, the possibility might 
fall into question. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
hereon wardt, adv. [ME.; < here 1 + onward."] 
In addition ; moreover. Chaucer. 
hereoutt (her-out') s afo. [<ME. herut; (.here 1 
+ wfc] Out of this. 
The godly will gather hereout that, as God's providence 
bindeth not our hands, so it hindereth not in us any good 
thing. J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1863), IL 131. 
here-remaint (her're-man*), n. Stay or sojourn 
here. 
A most miraculous work in this good king : 
Which often, since my here-remain in England, 
I have seen him do. Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 
hereright (her'rit), adv. [< here 1 + right.] 
Bight here; in this place. [Prov. Eng.] 
heresiarch (her'e-si-ark or he-re'si-ark), n. 
[= OP. heresiarche, heresiarque, P. heresiarque 
= Sp. Pg. heresiarca = It. eresiarca, < LL. ML. 
haresiarcha, < Gr. aipeaiapxris, the leader of a 
school, esp. of a medical school, in eccl. writers 
the chief of a sect or heresy, < alpcaif, a sect, 
school, heresy (see heresy). + apxeiv, rule.] A 
leader in heresy; anarch-heretic. 
The herettiarch commenced the error upon pride and 
ambition, and his followers went after him in simplicity 
of their heart. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 319. 
Sermons whose writers played such dangerous tricks 
Their own herestarchs called them heretics 
(Strange that one term such distant poles should link, 
The Priestleyan's copper and the Puseyan's zinc). 
0. W. Holmes, After-Dinner Poem. 
By the middle of the twelfth century other and purer 
hereiiarchs had arisen. Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 68. 
heresiarchyt, w. [< Gr. atpemf, heresy, + apx'l, 
< apxew, rule; cf. heresiarch.'] The teaching 
of a heresiarch ; prime, prominent, or flagrant 
heresy. 
The book itself [the Alcoran] consists of heresiarchics 
against our blessed Saviour. 
Sir T. Herbert, Travels in Africa, p. 323. 
2803 
heresiographer (her"e-si-og'ra-fer), n. [As 
lteresiograplt-y + -er 1 .] One who writes on 
heresies. 
heresiography (her"e-si-og'ra-fi), n. [< Gr. 
alptaif, neresy, + -ypaQia, < ypdtyeiv, write.] A 
treatise on heresies. 
heresiologist (her'e-si-ol'o-jist), n. [< heresi- 
olog-y + -ist.] One versed in, or engaged in the 
study of, heresiology ; a writer on heresies. 
All the Greek and Latin heresiologists have included 
the Manichceans in their catalogues. 
Encyc. Brit., XV. 487. 
heresiology (her*e-si-ol'o-ji), . [< Gr. aZ/><"f, 
heresy, T -Aoy/a, < "Xiyuv, speak: see -ology.] 
The study or the history of heresies. 
All three classes of these writers must be consulted for 
obtaining a complete acquaintance with heresiology. 
Blunt, Diet, of Sects (1374), p. 184. 
heresy (her'e-si), TO. ; pi. heresies (-siz). [< ME. 
heresye, heresie, eresie, < OF. heresie, heregie, P. 
heresie = Pr. heregia, eretgia = Sp. herejia = Pg. 
heregia, heresia = It. eresia, heresy, < L. hceresis, 
a school of thought (philosophical or religious), 
LL., eccl., heretical religious doctrine, heresy, 
< Gr. alpeaif, a taking, selection, a philosophi- 
cal principle or set of principles and those who 
profess such principles, a sect, school, eccl. a 
religious sect or party, heresy, < aipelv, take, 
mid. aipelaOai, take to oneself, choose.] 1. Any 
doctrine, opinion, or set of opinions at variance 
with the established standards of any system, 
school of thought, or party; an opinion or a 
doctrine tending to create schism or division; 
an untenable or a disturbing doctrine of any 
kind, as in philosophy, science, politics, moral- 
ity, etc. 
Such trespasses in speach (whereof there be many) as 
geue dolour and disliking to the eare & mimic, by any 
foule indecencie or disproportion of sound, situation, or 
sence, they be called^ and not without cause, the vicious 
parts or rather heresies of language. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 129. 
Popes, conclaves, and religious orders rose up against 
the Copernican heresy. 
Macaulay, Sadler's Law of Population. 
2. Specifically, in theol., an opinion or a doc- 
trine rejected by the authorities of a church as 
contrary to the established creed of that church ; 
an interpretation or a theological view of a sa- 
cred writing or other standard of religion, or of 
any distinctive part of it, opposed to that au- 
thoritatively established or generally accepted : 
as, the antmomian heresy. To the Roman Cath- 
olic any opinion contrary to the teachings of his church, 
to the Protestant any opinion contrary to the accepted 
interpretation of the Scripture, is a heresy. The error 
must be held by a professed believer ; pagan and infidel 
doctrines are not heresies. Roman Catholic divines dis- 
tinguish between formal heresies, or tenets contrary to the 
doctrines of the church which are wilfully and pertina- 
ciously held, and material heresies, or tenets that are he- 
retical but are not so pertinaciously held as to involve the 
guilt of heresy. 
There shall be false teachers among you, who privily 
shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord 
that bought them. 2 Pet. ii. 1. 
After the way which they call heresy, so worship I the 
God of my fathers. Acts xxiv. 14. 
Heresie is in the Will and choice profestly against the 
Scripture ; error is against the Will, in misunderstanding 
the Scripture after all sincere endeavours to understand 
it rightly. Milton, True Religion. 
A second offence is that of heresy, which consists not in 
a total denial of Christianity, but of some of its essential 
doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed. 
Blaekstone, Com., IV. iv. 
Antipodal heresy. See antipodal. =Syn. See compari- 
son under heretic. 
heretic (her'e-tik), n. and a. [Formerly heretick, 
early mod. E. also eretick; < ME. heretik, eretik 
(cf. AS. critic); ME. also erite (< OF. herite, 
herete, erite) and erege, < OF. herege, erege = Pr. 
heretge, eretge = Sp. hereje = Pg. herege, n., a 
heretic; OF. also heretique, F. hfretique = Sp. 
heretico = Pg. heretico. a., = It. eretico, a. and n., 
< LL. hfereticus, a., of or belonging to heresy; 
as noun, a heretic, < Gr. aipm/coY , able to choose, 
in eccl. writers heretical, < alpeiv, take, mid. 
alpeladai, choose : see heresy.'] I. n. 1. One who 
holds and persistently maintains an opinion or 
a doctrine at variance with the accepted stan- 
dards of any school or party, and rejected or 
condemned by it; one who rejects a generally 
accepted belief. 
I am an heretic, if it be sound doctrine that pleasure 
tastes best after sorrow. Donne, Letters, Ixxxiv. 
Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who pre- 
sumed to dispute his opinions, or to oppose his commands, 
were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinacy. 
Gibbon, Decline and Fall, xxi. 
2. Specifically, in theol., a professed believer 
who adopts and persistently maintains reli- 
heretoforn 
gious opinions contrary to the accepted stan- 
dards of his church. See heresy, 2. 
This yere [xii. Hen. VIII.] one Luther was accounted 
an cretyck, and on a Sonday, that was the xij. day of Maij, 
in the presence of the Lorde Legate, and many other 
Byshops and Lordys of England, the sayd Luther was 
openly declared an hf.rctyck at Powles Crosse, and all his 
bokes burned. 
Arnold's Chron. (2d ed. 1520, repr. 1811), p. lit 
= Syn. Heretic, Schismatic, Sectary, Dissenter, Noncon- 
formist. Heretic is an opprobrious epithet for a professed 
believer who holds religious opinions contrary to the es- 
tablished or dominant beliefs. A schismatic is one who 
seeks to sunder or divide into different organizations or 
parties those who are of essentially the same religious 
faith. A sectary or sectarian is one who sets the welfare 
of his own sect or denomination above that of the church 
universal, often pushing its interests at the cost of the 
general Christian welfare. This word has been much used 
opprobriously of those who stand out against an original 
or more powerful organization. A dissenter or noncon- 
formist is one who dissents from an established religion, 
or does not conform to it ; specifically and in actual use 
these words apply almost exclusively to those Protestants 
in Great Britain who worship apart from the Established 
Church of England, as the Presbyterians, Baptists, and 
Independents. 
If a person was so unfortunate as to be a bravo, a liber- 
tine, or a gambler, that was no reason for making him a 
heretic too. Macaulay, Von Ranke's Hist. Popes. 
Unity was Dante's leading doctrine, and therefore he 
puts Mahomet among the schismatics, not because he di- 
vided the Church, but the faith. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 108. 
Anno 1663, divers sectaries in religion beginning to 
spread themselves there [in the Virginia colonies], great 
restraints were laid upon them, under severe penalties, 
to prevent their increase. Beverley, Virginia, i. If 79. 
James the Second was at open war with the Church, 
and found it necessary to court the Dissenters. 
Macaulay, John Bunyan. 
The great body of non-conformists rejected the delusive 
offers of the King, and stood firmly by their principles. 
Macaulay, Mackintosh's Hist. Revolution. 
II. a. Pertaining to heresy ; believing heresy. 
Eschewe thou a man eretike aftir oon and the secounde 
correccioun. Wyclif, Tit. iiL 10. 
That saying of their father Cres. is still running in my 
head, that they may be dispensed with in their obedience 
to an heretic prince, while the necessity of the times shall 
oblige them to it. Dryden, Religio Laici, Pref. 
heretical (he-ret'i-kal), a. [< OP. heretical = 
Sp. heretical; as heretic + -a?.] Containing or 
characterized by heresy; contrary to estab- 
lished opinions or principles; contrary to an 
accepted standard of religious faith. 
This Queen [Katharine Parr], as being an earnest Prot- 
estant, had many great Adversaries, by whom she was ac- 
cused to the King to have Heretical Books found in her 
Closet. Baker, Chronicles, p. 291. 
The law of heresy is reformed, but not made less strin- 
gent, and it is no longer heretical to speak against the 
pope. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 257. 
heretically (he-ret'i-kal-i), adv. In a heretical 
manner; with heresy. 
He ignorantly and heretically held against the bishop. 
Strype, Bp. Aylmer. 
hereticate (he-ret'i-kat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
hereticated, ppr. hereticating. [< ML. hcereti- 
catus, pp. of hcereticare, make a heretic, charge 
with heresy ( > Sp. hereticar, maintain a neresy), 
< LL. luereticus, a heretic : see heretic.~\ To 
decide to be heretical ; denounce as heresy. 
[Bare.] 
Let no one be minded on the score of my neoterism to 
here-licttte me as threatening to abet some new-fangled 
form of religious heterodoxy. 
F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 19, note 2. 
heretication (he-ret-i-ka'shon), n. [Also writ- 
ten hferetication ; < ML. licereticatio(n-), < haire- 
ticare, make a heretic, charge with heresy: see 
hereticate.'] The act of declaring heretical. 
[Rare.] 
hereticide (he-ret'i-sld), n. [< LL. hcereticus, a 
heretic, + -cidium, < ccedere, kill.] The act of 
putting a heretic to death. Mather. [Rare.] 
hereto (her-to'), adv. [< ME. herto (= D. hiertoe 
= G. hiereu; cf. Dan. hertil = Sw. hartill) ; < 
here 1 + to 1 .] To this (place, time, action, etc.) : 
as, hereto he was strongly urged. 
A kinder value of the people than 
He hath hereto priz'd them at. 
Shak., Cor., tt. 2. 
Hereto the whole Church beseech him, beg of him, de- 
plore him, pray for him. 
Milton, Church-Government, ii. 3. 
heretocht, Same as heretoga. 
heretofore (her'tij-for'), adv. [< here 1 + tofore. 
Cf. hei-etoforn.'] Before this time; formerly; 
up to this time. 
We now can form no more 
Long schemes of life, as heretofore. Swift. 
heretofornt, adv. [< ME. heere-to-forn ; < here 1 
+ toforn.'] Heretofore; formerly. 
Where ben these worth! that were heere-to-fom f 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 87. 
