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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for apostate:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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]

2. The 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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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5. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)

APOSTATE, n.  A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle
only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient
to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

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