hereticate

English

Etymology

From Latin haereticatus, past participle of haereticare.

Verb

hereticate (third-person singular simple present hereticates, present participle hereticating, simple past and past participle hereticated)

1. (transitive) To denounce as heresy or a heretic.
   • 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English:

     And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me.

   • c. 1629, Joseph Hall, Answer to Pope Urban his inurbanity expressed, in a brief against the Protestants of France:

     If that great Chancellor of Paris were now alive, he would freely teach his Sorbonne, as he once did, that it is not in the Pope's power, that I may use his own word, to hereticate any proposition.