hereticate

Etymology

From Latin haereticatus, past participle of haereticare.

Verb

hereticate (third-person singular simple present hereticates, present participle hereticating, simple past and past participle hereticated)

1. (transitive) To denounce as heresy or a heretic.
   • Fitzed. Hall

     And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me.

   • Bishop Joseph Hall

     If that great Chancellor of Paris were now alive, he would freely teach his Sorbonne, as he once did, that it is not in the Pope's power, that I may use his own word, to hereticate any proposition.