orthodox

adjective5

1. •
   Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology.

   • Five important modifications were made by the Pietists to the orthodox doctrine of justification, each corresponding to a distinctive aspect of the movement's agenda. — 2005
2. •
   Adhering to whatever is customary, traditional, or generally accepted.

   • Not only the quack cures of the past but also many forms of treatment given with the best will and intentions in the world by the best and most orthodox doctors of the time seem strange to us today. — 1976
3. •
   Of the eastern churches, Eastern Orthodox.
4. •
   Of a branch of Judaism.
5. •
   Of pollen, seed, or spores: viable for a long time; viable when dried to low moisture content.

adjective4

1. •
   Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Churches collectively.
2. •
   Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.
3. •
   (Judaism) Of or pertaining to Orthodox Judaism.
4. •
   Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Quakers, a group of Quakers (subdivided into the Wilburite, Gurneyite and Beaconite branches) who split with the Hicksite Quakers due to favoring adopting mainstream Protestant orthodoxy.

   • [...which] Doherty hypothesized as the controlling variable for predicting who would become Orthodox or who would be Hicksite. — 2006

noun2

1. •
   An Orthodox Christian.

   • The Greek Orthodox population of the 62 bishoprics in 1886 numbered 65,549,096. to which the Orthodoxes of the army and navy must be added. — 1891
2. •
   (rare) An Orthodox Jew.