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Apostate   /əpˈɔsteɪt/   Listen
noun
Apostate  n.  
1.
One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.
2.
(R. C. Ch.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.


adjective
Apostate  adj.  Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. "So spake the apostate angel." "A wretched and apostate state."


verb
Apostate  v. i.  To apostatize. (Obs.) "We are not of them which apostate from Christ."





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"Apostate" Quotes from Famous Books



... by Greek science. It was the latter that arranged and explained the Oriental traditions, loosed their tongues, and produced those religious doctrines and philosophical systems which culminated in Gnosticism, Neo-Platonism, the Judaism of Philo, and the Polytheism of Julian the Apostate. ...
— History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) • S. Rappoport
... brings their failure to do it home to them, in these pungent words: "If, instead of this, you have some by word and writing propagated, and others recommended, such doctrines, and abetted the false notions which are so prevalent in this apostate age, it is high time to consider it. If, when authority found themselves almost nonplust in such prosecutions, and sent to you for your advice what they ought to do, and you have then thanked them for what they had already done (and thereby encouraged them to proceed ...
— Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather - A Reply • Charles W. Upham
... I shall pass away in peace in the bosom of the Lord. And there is my life. Nothing else to choose. No turning aside to the right or to the left. I must remain a martyr, a martyr to my duty, or an apostate, and infamous renegade. The triumph ...
— The Grip of Desire • Hector France
... has ever travestied in gross material forms the most spiritual conceptions of God, sought to prove herself the true Church by achieving a oneness of her own. It was an outward and visible oneness. In the apostate church every one must utter the same formularies, worship in the same postures, and belong to the same ecclesiastical system. And its leaders did their best to realize their dream. They endeavored to exterminate heresy by fire, and sword, and torture. They spread their network through ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer
... catacombs, and all of this beautiful calligraphy, and usually in Latin verse, not without elegance of style, though the construction of the sentences is sometimes not clear. Damasus restored all the catacombs, after they had been damaged during the persecution under Julian the Apostate. ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy


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