heresiography

[ huh-ree-zee-og-ruh-fee, -see-, her-uh-see- ]

noun

, plural he·re·si·og·ra·phies.

1. a treatise on heresy.

Other Words From

• he·resi·ogra·pher noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of heresiography¹

First recorded in 1635–45; heresy + -o- + -graphy

Example Sentences

Epiphanius, whose name is and used to be a terror to her Royal Highness in days gone by, when I insisted upon reading to her about the peculiar people who made it a matter of faith to eat bread and cheese at the Eucharist—Epiphanius is to me positively entertaining, and Pagitt's Heresiography is none the less instructive because it is a vulgar catch-penny little book, made up, like Peter Pindar's razors, to sell.

From Project Gutenberg

Perhaps because he had thus acquired a fondness for the statistics of religious denominations, it occurred to him to write, by way of sequel, a "Heresiography; or, A Description of the Hereticks and Sectaries of these latter times."

From Project Gutenberg