Meaning of APOSTATE
| Pronunciation: | | u'pâsteyt
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- [n] a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
- [adj] not faithful to religion or party or cause
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| | Synonyms: | | deserter, ratter, recreant, renegade, unfaithful |
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\A*pos"tate\, n. [L. apostata, Gr. ?, fr. ?. See
{Apostasy}.]
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.
\A*pos"tate\, a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to
moral allegiance; renegade.
So spake the apostate angel. --Milton.
A wretched and apostate state. --Steele.
\A*pos"tate\, v. i. [L. apostatare.]
To apostatize. [Obs.]
We are not of them which apostate from Christ. --Bp.
Hall.
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| | Related Terms: | | atheist, atheistic, backslider, backsliding, blasphemer, blasphemous, bolter, collaborationist, collaborative, collaborator, convert, defector, degenerate, demurrer, deserter, disloyal, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, faithless, fallen, fallen from grace, fifth columnist, impious, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, mugwump, nonconformist, objector, opinionist, opposition voice, profanatory, profane, proselyte, protestant, protester, quisling, rat, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, recusant, renegade, renegado, renegate, reversionist, runagate, Sabbath-breaker, sacrilegious, sacrilegist, schismatic, seceder, secessionist, sectarian, sectary, separatist, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversating, tergiversator, traitor, traitorous, treasonable, treasonous, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, unbeliever, undutiful |
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