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- verb Alternative spelling of
apostatize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
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Examples
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After one sermon, he was surrounded by Calvinists who offered him his life if he would apostatise.
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The first is of those who, being initiated in the Mosaical rites, and made citizens of that commonwealth, did afterwards apostatise from the worship of the God of Israel.
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He an aposteme of the world, who by being discontented with those things that happen unto him in the world, doth as it were apostatise, and separate himself from common nature's rational administration.
Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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FitzHerbert should apostatise was incredible enough; but that one should sell his family -- It was impossible.
Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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Chronicles itself tacitly gives the honour to the older narrative by making Joash at last apostatise from Mosaism and refuse the grateful deference which he owed to the high priest; this is the consequence of the unpleasant impression, derived not from its own story, but from that of the Book of Kings, with regard to the undue interference of the otherwise pious king in the affairs of the sanctuary and of the priests.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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Judah to apostatise (xxi. 11), and moreover slays all his brethren with the sword (ver. 4) -- the one follows from the other.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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They can apostatise in Adam, and be regenerated in Christ.
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It was also a singular circumstance, that no Molist was ever known to change sides, whereas, after bathing, many of the Anti-Molists were found most shamefully to apostatise.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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It was also a singular circumstance, that no Molist was ever known to change sides, whereas, after bathing, many of the Anti-molists were found most shamefully to apostatise.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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I would do any thing, _but apostatise_, to get him on in his profession.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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