orthodoxly

English

WOTD – 9 August 2011

From orthodox +‎ -ly.

orthodoxly (comparative more orthodoxly, superlative most orthodoxly)

In a correct or proper way; conventionally; correctly. [from 17th c.]
- 1778, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued, III.12:
  if, after a season of thoughtlessness, you perceive your understanding on a sudden lively to discern, and your will vigorous to pursue heavenly things, you may orthodoxly conclude there has been an effusion, not that there is one now.
- 1925, Scudder Klyce, Sins of Science, XXV.1:
  Biology is orthodoxly the part of science that deals directly with the phenomena of living matter.
- 31 March 1930, “Don Juan”, in Time:
  So great was Ariel’s success and that of the similar Disraeli that readers might have expected Maurois to treat Shelley's friend and fellow-poet in the same style. But no miniature in enamel is this orthodoxly lengthy, appendixed, annotated biography of Byron.
In a religiously orthodox way; in accordance with accepted religious doctrine. [from 17th c.]
- 1980, Agehananda Bharati, The Ochre Robe:
  He wears a turban, he puts on his sandal mark every morning, he bathes and eats and marries and dies orthodoxly; he probably begets children orthodoxly.
- 1990, LP Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500, page 91:
  The teaching here is orthodoxly Islamic, the preoccupation with assessing the relation of works to faith is very much of the European fifteenth century.

in a correct or proper way

religion: according to doctrine