apostate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin apostata, from Ancient Greek ἀποστάτης (apostátēs, “rebel”), from ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi, “to withdraw, revolt”), from ἀπό (apó, “from”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈpɒs.teɪt/, /əˈpɒs.tət/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈpɔs.teɪt/, /əˈpɔs.tət/, /əˈpɔs.tɪt/
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Adjective[edit]
apostate (not comparable)
- Guilty of apostasy.
- We must punish this apostate priest.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 608–613:
- VVho can impair thee, mighty King, or bound / Thy Empire? eaſily the proud attempt / Of Spirits apoſtat and thir Counſels vaine / Thou haſt repeld, vvhile impiouſly they thought / Thee to diminiſh, and from thee vvithdravv / The number of thy vvorſhippers.
- 1711 April 2 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “THURSDAY, March 22, 1710–1711”, in The Spectator, number 19; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- a wretched and apostate state
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 101:
- An enormous number of monks and priests gave themselves up to sorcery, and there was no lack of apostate priests to perform the ceremonies of the Black Mass.
Translations[edit]
guilty of apostasy
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Noun[edit]
apostate (plural apostates)
- A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
- (Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
- (by extension) One who has renounced a political party, a cause, etc.
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Translations[edit]
person who renounces a religion or faith
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Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
apostate f
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
apostate
- inflection of apostatar:
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
apostate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of apostar combined with te
- inflection of apostatar:
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