ORTHODOX


Meaning of ORTHODOX in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

conventional/orthodox medicine (= ordinary modern medicine )

Some sufferers reject conventional medicine.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

more

Middlesbrough manager Lennie Lawrence will include Slaven in a more orthodox formation.

Just the kind of thing a team without a more orthodox identity would try.

Equally satisfactory results can be obtained using more orthodox treatments.

The present more orthodox incumbent was a tough man as well as an Augustine; accustomed to risky assignments in Cairo.

■ NOUN

account

Like the orthodox account , they locate the crisis specifically within the prison rather than in the penal system as a whole.

We think it is roughly correct to say that the orthodox account sees the different factors interacting as in Figure 1.1.

One could try to modify the orthodox account to accommodate these factual discrepancies.

This humanistic attention to the subjective interpretation by prisoners of their situation marks a distinct departure from the orthodox account .

The orthodox account of scientific practice represents a marriage between the two traditions just outlined.

church

The monks of Valaam could be regarded as the future of the orthodox church .

medicine

We therefore should aim at integration rather than separation from orthodox medicine .

Many practitioners of orthodox medicine boggle over the accuracy of reflexology's diagnoses.

It's complementary to orthodox medicine .

In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts.

religion

Why is the word regarded with some revulsion among the orthodox religions ?

Both are sons of prosperous professional fathers, who are devout and emphasized the importance of orthodox religion in the home.

This is possibly correct where the interpretations of those two terms are consistent with orthodox religions .

view

I perceived that the orthodox view of Time, as gradually established in the Western world, was a mistaken one.

In the orthodox view the illness is considered to be the sum total of the symptoms and signs which it produces.

All theories have difficulties to overcome, and there is certainly no need to abandon the orthodox view .

He challenges the orthodox view that elderly people turn to formal agencies for help only when informal support is absent or inadequate.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Orthodox Christianity teaches that Jesus was raised to life three days after he was crucified.

orthodox communism

orthodox historical research

orthodox methods of treating disease

Lacan soon found himself in conflict with more orthodox psychologists.

The Almoravids attempted to bring Africa back to orthodox Islamic practice.

This interpretation of Karma is rejected by orthodox Hindus.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An orthodox Hindu must not touch an untouchable or anything an untouchable touches.

Articles were written which could be construed as orthodox , but still interpreted by sympathisers in their intended subversive sense.

Harassment of religion will only tarnish the orthodox church's reputation, while steeling the resistance of persecuted faiths.

He challenges the orthodox view that elderly people turn to formal agencies for help only when informal support is absent or inadequate.

The first, and most orthodox , of these was the 11-18 comprehensive school.

The monks of Valaam could be regarded as the future of the orthodox church.

This difference in approach constitutes the fundamental difference between the homoeopathic and orthodox systems of drug use.

Women from orthodox families told me that they were not allowed to wear them.

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