apostate
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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person who renounces a religion or faith
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Verb edit
apostate
- inflection of apostatar:
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Verb edit
apostate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of apostar combined with te
- inflection of apostatar: