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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_87465" /> == | |||
<p> (1): </p> <p> (a.) [[Pertaining]] to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. </p> <p> (2): </p> <p> (v. i.) To apostatize. </p> <p> (3): </p> <p> (n.) 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. </p> <p> (4): </p> <p> (n.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. </p> | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_20395" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_20395" /> == | ||
<p> (ἀποστάτης , a rebel, renegade), a term used, in its strict sense, by ecclesiastical writers, to designate one who has, either wholly or in part, left the true faith to embrace a false belief, or who has forsaken any holy profession to which he was bound by solemn vows. The term apostate is, in [[Church]] history, applied by way of emphasis to the [[Emperor]] Julian, who, though he had been nominally [[Christian]] when he came to the throne, renounced the Christian religion, and used every means in his power to reestablish paganism in the empire. (See [[Heretic]]). </p> | <p> (ἀποστάτης , a rebel, renegade), a term used, in its strict sense, by ecclesiastical writers, to designate one who has, either wholly or in part, left the true faith to embrace a false belief, or who has forsaken any holy profession to which he was bound by solemn vows. The term apostate is, in [[Church]] history, applied by way of emphasis to the [[Emperor]] Julian, who, though he had been nominally [[Christian]] when he came to the throne, renounced the Christian religion, and used every means in his power to reestablish paganism in the empire. (See [[Heretic]]). </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_87465"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/apostate Apostate from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_20395"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/apostate Apostate from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_20395"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/apostate Apostate from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
