apostate

5 definitions found

apostate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Apostate \A*pos"tate\, a.
     Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to
     moral allegiance; renegade.
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           So spake the apostate angel.             --Milton.
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           A wretched and apostate state.           --Steele.
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  Apostate \A*pos"tate\, v. i. [L. apostatare.]
     To apostatize. [Obs.]
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           We are not of them which apostate from Christ. --Bp.
                                                    Hall.
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  Apostate \A*pos"tate\, n. [L. apostata, Gr. ?, fr. ?. See
     Apostasy.]
     1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to
        which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his
        religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.
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     2. (R. C. Ch.) One who, after having received sacred orders,
        renounces his clerical profession.
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apostate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  apostate
      adj 1: not faithful to religion or party or cause
      n 1: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or
           religion or political party or friend etc. [syn:
           deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant,
           ratter]

apostate - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "apostate":
     Sabbath-breaker, atheist, atheistic, backslider, backsliding,
     blasphemer, blasphemous, bolter, collaborationist, collaborative,
     collaborator, convert, defector, degenerate, demurrer, deserter,
     disloyal, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, faithless, fallen,
     fallen from grace, fifth columnist, impious, irreligious,
     irreverent, lapsed, mugwump, nonconformist, objector, opinionist,
     opposition voice, profanatory, profane, proselyte, protestant,
     protester, quisling, rat, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant,
     recusant, renegade, renegado, renegate, reversionist, runagate,
     sacrilegious, sacrilegist, schismatic, seceder, secessionist,
     sectarian, sectary, separatist, strikebreaker, tergiversant,
     tergiversating, tergiversator, traitor, traitorous, treasonable,
     treasonous, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, unbeliever, undutiful