Definition of Apostatise

1. Verb. Abandon one's beliefs or allegiances.

Exact synonyms: Apostatize, Tergiversate
Generic synonyms: Disown, Renounce, Repudiate
Derivative terms: Apostate, Apostate, Tergiversation

Definition of Apostatise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of apostatize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apostatise

1. [v -TISED, -TISING, -TISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apostatise

apositic
aposome
aposporic
apospories
aposporous
apospory
apostacies
apostacy
apostacys
apostasies
apostasy
apostate
apostates
apostatic
apostatical
apostatise (current term)
apostatised
apostatises
apostatising
apostatize
apostatized
apostatizes
apostatizing
apostaxis
apostemate
apostemation
apostemations
apostematous
aposteme
apostemes

Literary usage of Apostatise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of William Robertson ...: To which is Prefixed, an Account of His by William Robertson, Dugald Stewart (1817)
"... future apostatise from the church of Rome. It Boo ,K was no easy matter to reconcile such opposite XL pretensions, which were supported, on each side, ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"It may, indeed have the power to apostatise, hut it can never hare the light. ... No nation, he says, has a right to apostatise from Christianity. ..."

3. The Pilgrim of Our Lady of Martyrs (1901)
"He was then beaten until he became unconscious ; and when he recovered a little he was again ordered to apostatise and he again refused ; then he was beaten ..."

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