APage 381
- 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.