† ˈorthodoxal, a. Obs.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. = orthodox A. 1.
| 1592 G. Harvey Pierce's Super. in Archaica (1815) II. 94 The works of the fathers and doctors, howsoever ancient, learned, or orthodoxal, are little or nothing worth. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. (1636) 89 Things..set downe in the Creed, and unanimously received by all Orthodoxall Christians. 1689 Sovereign Right of People over Tyrants 7 Mosaical, Christian, and Orthodoxal Authors. |
2. = orthodox A. 2.
| 1585–7 T. Rogers 39 Art. (1607) 336 All churches Protestant and reformed subscribe unto this doctrine, as both apostolical and orthodoxal. 1641 Milton Prel. Episc. Wks. (1851) 90 Who willingly passe by that which is Orthodoxall in them, and studiously cull out that which is Commentitious. 1656 B. Hubbard (title) Orthodoxal Navigation; or the admirable and excellent Art of Arithmetical Great Circle Sailing. 1819 Shelley P. Bell 3rd Prol. 12 Shielding from the guilt of schism The orthodoxal syllogism. |
Hence
† orthodoˈxality,
† orthoˈdoxalness, orthodox quality or condition;
† orthoˈdoxally adv., orthodoxly.
| 1660 H. More Myst. Godl. x. ii. 494 They be but neatly & elegantly trimm'd up in these fine ornaments of *Orthodoxality. 1726 Penn's Wks. I. Life 43 Denying with them the Authority, Antiquity, and Orthodoxality of the Romish Church. |
| 1606 W. Crashaw Rom. Forgeries 15 Ferus soundly and *orthodoxally teacheth in plaine words, that Christs iustice is our iustification. 1834 Fraser's Mag. X. 608 A very excellent and worthy young fellow, who drinks brandy pawnee as orthodoxally as if he were a Christian. |
| 1654 Hammond Answ. Animadv. Ignat. iii. §3. 67 The *Orthodoxalness of Damas in this, and the like of other Bishops. |