What's the difference between heretic and herpetic?
Heretic
Definition:
(n.) One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.
(n.) One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church."
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the problem of predicting the selection effect using statistical estimates of heretability is connected with the problem of investigation of population heterogeneity and integrating their genetical structure.
(2) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
(3) The IS group considers Shias to be heretics and is fighting Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq and Syria.
(4) It used to be it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier,” Cruz said.
(5) Benito Mussolini, the future Fascist leader of Italy, was one of Italy's most prominent socialists, publishing historical biographies under the pen name "Vero Eretico" or "true heretic".
(6) I had never heard a formerly so heretical view expressed in any Arab quarter so publicly.
(7) Then maybe you might even avoid being called by the Inquisition for an 'assessment' of whether you have the Devil's mark or a third nipple or any other sign that you are a heretical 'scrounger'.
(8) Yet it is ever more dissected by hacks and bloggers who pretend to be heretical but are just gossip merchants who never question the deep structures of governance and merely legitimate their own crepuscular existence.
(9) If I’m a heretic then I’m proud because the root of the word ‘heretic’ is ‘choice’.
(10) Obviously games mattered to the crowd, who cheered Jobs's announcement that 12 current games, including Tomb Raider III, StarCraft, Heretic 2, Age of Empires, Quake and Quest for Glory 5 would be out on the Mac within the next 120 days.
(11) The temperature is always a little higher with a heretic in the room.
(12) Moore shows that the production of false knowledge about the victims of persecution, such as heretics and Jews, as well as the destruction of their actual identities, was a crucial feature of Europe's "persecuting societies".
(13) While the crusaders litter the countryside with steaming piles of barbecued heretics, there's some modern Durr Vinci Code whiffle involving hooded business types and clandestine sacrifices conducted in the name of "ze inheritors of ze Grail".
(14) With felicitous timing, London's Royal Court theatre is staging Richard Bean's hilarious if chaotic play, Heretic, about a university department eager for a grant from a multinational company and ready to suppress academic rigour to do so.
(15) He found precursors of the witch-hunts in the persecution of early Christians by the Romans, in the Church's campaigns against 12th-century heretics, and in the destruction of the Knights Templars.
(16) Isis regards Shia Muslims as heretics, and refers to them derogatively as “rafideen” or “rejectionists”.
(17) The difficult position of the heretic as a challenger to an entrenched orthodoxy is described, particularly the attempt of heretics to assert their allegiance to the discourse itself while the orthodoxy attempts to portray them as traitors or apostates.
(18) Many of the dead and wounded, Murtaza said, were from the Shia sect of Islam, which extremist groups drawn from Pakistan's majority Sunni popular regard as heretics.
(19) The core problem was that the stranglehold that market logic secured over public life in this period made the most direct and obvious climate responses seem politically heretical.
(20) The Templar order risked becoming a refuge for heretics who denied Jesus was fully human and the Shroud offered evidence to the contrary.
Herpetic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions.
Example Sentences:
(1) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(2) These observations support the concept that latent infection of sensory ganglia may be the source of virus in recurrent herpetic disease in man.
(3) Since lymphocytic cells in intimate contact with degenerating keratocytes have previously been identified in the cornea, these observations provide a basis for the view that cell-mediated immunopathogenesis is involved in the etiology of herpetic stromal keratitis.
(4) In contrast, the activities were lower in the affected eyes of patients with herpetic keratitis and vernal conjunctivitis than in the fellow normal eyes.
(5) In four additional patients studied serially, the cell-mediated immunity was significantly increased during the recrudescence of herpetic infection, with a mean specific immune release value of 51.7 plus or minus 27.8%, compared to 8.7 plus or minus 1.5% during the convalescent period 2 to 10 weeks later (P is less than 0.05).
(6) Two patients had herpes simplex infection of the fingertips (herpetic whitlow) associated with herpetic keratitis.
(7) Based on results in monitoring these 13 cases, it may be suggested that 3 samples of serum and CSF are required to confirm the herpetic etiology, including 2 samples taken during the second week of the course of encephalitis.
(8) A topical steroid is generally contraindicated in the presence of herpes simplex epithelial keratitis and has been implicated in prolonging the course of herpetic eye disease.
(9) Furthermore, its effect against ascending herpetic ocular infection into encephalitis was evaluated in the rabbit.
(10) The metaherpetic keratopathy develops on the basis of a disturbed metabolism after relapsing, mainly deep herpetic keratitis.
(11) The risk of developing post-herpetic neuralgia is related to the degree of residual scarring.
(12) Twenty-one cases of epithelial herpetic keratitis were treated with cryotherapy and 14 cases were treated with Iodoxouridine (IDU).
(13) The study of acute herpetic gingivostomatitis (AHGS) has been a very interesting theme for those dealing with periodontal practice.
(14) Despite probable adequate acyclovir levels in the spinal fluid, a second episode or progression of herpetic encephalitis occurred, suggesting impairment of host defenses, particularly cellular immunity.
(15) Thirty-two patients with presumptive herpetic anterior uveitis without active corneal inflammation received 3% acyclovir ophthalmic ointment five times daily and acyclovir 200mg orally five times a day.
(16) A model of herpetic keratitis with type 1 Herpesvirus hominis was established in the guinea pig.
(17) One patient, with herpetic encephalitis, was diagnosed by electron microscopic review of the core biopsy only.
(18) An animal model is presented that demonstrates that following cervicovaginal inoculation, infective doses of herpesvirus hominis type II induce a form of herpetic encephalitis.
(19) The authors report two cases of localized herpetic lymphadenitis, both showing well-circumscribed areas of necrosis containing cells with diagnostic intranuclear inclusions.
(20) This will lead to a new role of steroids in the treatment of intraocular herpetic diseases.