schismatic in English
So it was that his invasion of England, where the church was schismatic , was officially a crusade and a papal banner flew over the Norman knights at Hastings.
If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics , and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
Use "schismatic" in a sentence
1. John (XXIII), schismatic Antipope from 1410 to 1415
2. But what constituted "blasphemous, immoral, treasonable, schismatic, seditious or scandalous libels"?
3. Pope Innocent XI then “viewed the French Church as almost schismatic.”
4. He was named successor to Antipope Paschal III by a small number of schismatic cardinals.
5. Our historian, that if Mohammedanism is regarded as a schismatic form of Christianity, Babism may be considered a purified branch of that schism.
6. Breakaway adjective rebel, revolutionary, rebellious, dissenting, insurgent, seceding, secessionist, heretical, mutinous, insubordinate, insurrectionary, schismatic a Breakaway group Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition