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[Eng. orthodox; -ical.] Pertaining to or characterized by orthodoxy; orthodox. or-tho-dox-ly, adv. [Eng. orthodox; -ly.] In an orthodox manner. "So soundly and so orthodoxly settled."- Bacon: Advice to Sir G. Villiers. or'-tho-dox-ne , s . [English orthodox ; -ne .] The quality or state of being orthodox; orthodoxy. or-tho-dox-ỹ, s. [Gr. orthodox i a , from ortho doxos orthodox (q. v.); Fr. ortho doxie ; Sp. or to doxia .] The quality or state of being orthodox; soundne of faith, opinion, or doctrine, espec. in religious matters; conformity to orthodox opinions or views. Feast of Orthodoxy: Church History: A festival established by the Greeks in the ninth century to commemorate the firm support given by the Council of Constantinople, A. D. 879 (deemed by the Greeks the eighth Ecumenical), to the Second Council of Nice in the reõstablishment of image-worship within the East ern Church. ( Mosheim : Church Hist . , cent. ix., pt. ii., ch. iii., § 15.)