apostatic

In countries under Islamic law, conversion to Christianity or other religions is an apostatic crime.

Iraqi Christians Among Bush War Victims 2007

Instances are not unknown, when all is said and done, of apostatic sexual union not only not diminishing Judaism but actually enhancing it.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

Or maybe because he was killed in a apostatic church, it'll be claimed to be religious discrimination.

Latest Articles 2009

There’s a bit of a Zen quality about him, perhaps acquired from having to defend an apostatic position.

The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

There’s a bit of a Zen quality about him, perhaps acquired from having to defend an apostatic position.

The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

"In countries under Islamic law," she writes, "conversion to Christianity or any other religion is an apostatic crime.

CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2007 2007

Hudson falls for wife of man he killed, studies, cures her uncurable blindness in bare-chested operation-starts in death, ends in salvation, and updates a medieval mythology of efficacious grace into the apostatic 50s of luxury condos and kultchah, with uneasy overtones of capitalist will-to-power: a full-grown stereotype of moonlit joy rides, canted California beachlight, Swiss oompahpah, the world's best optometrists in labcoats, a hidden desert valley in Arizona that exists only for a hospital that exists only as the bedspring of recovery-emotional and physical-for our cut-out protagonists.

The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide David Phelps 2010