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  • English Word Aporose Definition Without pores.
  • English Word Aport Definition On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.
  • English Word Aposiopesis Definition A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."
  • English Word Apositic Definition Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.
  • English Word Apostasies Definition of Apostasy
  • English Word Apostasy Definition An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.
  • English Word Apostate Definition 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.
  • English Word Apostate Definition One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
  • English Word Apostate Definition Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade.
  • English Word Apostate Definition To apostatize.
  • English Word Apostatic Definition Apostatical.
  • English Word Apostatical Definition Apostate.
  • English Word Apostatize Definition 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.
  • English Word Apostatized Definition of Apostatize
  • English Word Apostatizing Definition of Apostatize
  • English Word Apostemate Definition To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus.
  • English Word Apostemation Definition The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.
  • English Word Apostematous Definition Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.
  • English Word Aposteme Definition An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.
  • English Word Apostil Definition Alt. of Apostille
  • English Word Apostille Definition A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation.
  • English Word Apostle Definition Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel.
  • English Word Apostle Definition The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.
  • English Word Apostle Definition A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts.
  • English Word Apostleship Definition The office or dignity of an apostle.
  • English Word Apostolate Definition The dignity, office, or mission, of an apostle; apostleship.
  • English Word Apostolate Definition The dignity or office of the pope, as the holder of the apostolic see.
  • English Word Apostolic Definition Alt. of Apostolical
  • English Word Apostolic Definition A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.
  • English Word Apostolical Definition Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times, or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the apostolic age.