Both Uses of
orthodox
in
Moby Dick
- There's orthodoxy!†
Chpt 67-69 *
- But then there were some sceptical Greeks and Romans, who, standing out from the orthodox pagans of their times, equally doubted the story of Hercules and the whale, and Arion and the dolphin; and yet their doubting those traditions did not make those traditions one whit the less facts, for all that.†
Chpt 82-84
Definition:
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(orthodox) normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)