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Definition of Apostatize
1. Verb. Abandon one's beliefs or allegiances.
Generic synonyms: Disown, Renounce, Repudiate
Derivative terms: Apostate, Apostate, Tergiversation
Definition of Apostatize
1. v. i. To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.
Definition of Apostatize
1. Verb. To give up or renounce one's position or belief. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apostatize
1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apostatize
Literary usage of Apostatize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The pilgrim's progress by John Bunyan, James Solas Dodd (1795)
"credit and confidence, will venture into perilous or ruinous paths, till they
either openly apostatize, or get entangled in some fatal delusion, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1821)
"If metrical exactness is to apostatize from the true faith. occasionally wanting,
that defect is We regret that we are obliged to more than compensated by ..."
3. The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal by Francis Asbury (1821)
"... apostatize ; 3d, The impossibility of a recovery when they arrive at a certain
degree of wickedness : 1st, Because they sin against God, Christ, ..."
4. The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons, from by Thomas B. H. Stenhouse (1873)
"Apostles apostatize—Marsh and Hyde make Affidavits against the Prophet—Charge
him with aiming to be a Second Mohammed— The Danite Band—Its Name and ..."
5. The Theological and Literary Journal (1850)
"Men are now, at best, as ready to apostatize from the truth as they ever were;
pride, ambition, ... apostatize ..."
6. An Englishwoman in Utah: The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism by T. B. H. Stenhouse (1880)
"MY HUSBAND DISFELLOWSHIPPED—WE apostatize—BRUTAL OUTRAGE UPON MY HUSBAND AND MYSELF.
NOTWITHSTANDING all my own personal troubles and the difficulties which ..."
7. The Prophet of the Nineteenth Century; Or, The Rise, Progress, and Present by Henry Caswall (1843)
"... Bennett, and others apostatize—The prophet is arrested and released— He
fortifies Nauvoo, and defies the Government—Conclusion. ..."
8. History of the Church of Ireland by Richard Mant (1841)
"Clergy encouraged to apostatize. King's Declaration of Liberty of Conscience.
Dispensing power attempted. Sufferings of Protestants. ..."
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