heresy

• n.異端、異教、邪教

ラテン語の haeresis、学派、哲学の学派、ギリシャ語の hairein、選択から。後に、正統派や宗教と対立する学派を指すようになり、異端という言葉の語源となった。

heresy

heresy: [13] Etymologically, a heresy is a ‘choice’ one makes. The word comes ultimately from Greek haíresis ‘choice’, a derivative of hairein ‘take, choose’. This was applied metaphorically to a ‘course of action or thought which one chooses to take’, hence to a particular ‘school of thought’, and ultimately to a ‘faction’ or ‘sect’. The word passed into Latin as haeresis, which early Christian writers used for ‘unorthodox sect or doctrine’, and thence via Vulgar Latin *heresia and Old French heresie into English. (Another derivative of hairein, incidentally, was diairein ‘divide’, from which English gets diaeresis [17].)
=> diaeresis

heresy (n.)

"an opinion of private men different from that of the catholick and orthodox church" [Johnson], c. 1200, from Old French heresie (12c.), from Latin h?resis, "school of thought, philosophical sect," used by Christian writers for "unorthodox sect or doctrine," from Greek hairesis "a taking or choosing, a choice," from haireisthai "take, seize," middle voice of hairein "to choose," of unknown origin, perhaps from PIE *ser- (5) "to seize" (cognates: Hittite ?aru "booty," Welsh herw "booty").

The Greek word was used in the New Testament in reference to the Sadducees, Pharisees, and even the Christians, as sects of Judaism, but in English bibles it usually is translated sect. Meaning "religious belief opposed to the orthodox doctrines of the Church" evolved in Late Latin. Transferred (non-religious) use from late 14c.

1. Mellors was preaching heresy and had to be immediately defrocked.

メルローズは異端邪説を唱え、直ちにその聖職を免れざるを得なかった。

2.What Bracey is saying is tantamount to heresy .

ブレッシーの言葉はまさに異端邪説だ。

3.He was burned at the stake for heresy .

彼は異端思想を信奉して火刑で処刑された。

4.Her belief that taxes should be higher was heresy .

彼女は税金を増やすべきだと考えている。これは異端的な邪説だ。

5.We should denounce a heresy .

異端の邪説を公然と非難すべきである。