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Definition of Apostatise
1. Verb. Abandon one's beliefs or allegiances.
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
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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