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Apostatized

Apostatize \A*pos"ta*tize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Apostatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Apostatizing.] [LL. apostatizare.] 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.

He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in ?emblances.
--Carlyle.

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apostatized

vb. (en-past of: apostatize)

Usage examples of "apostatized".

Medina apostatized from their Faith, turning back to the idolatry of pagan times.

But on the day that you apostatized I would no longer continue my humiliating sacrifice.

The first is the view of some of the Manichean teachers, that spirits were embodied by a hostile violence and cunning, the force and fraud of the apostatized Devil.

Some writers of ability and eminence have tried to maintain that the Johannean conception of Satan was of some exalted archangel who apostatized from the law of God and fell from heaven into the abyss of night, sin, and woe.

Portuguese priest, Christovao Ferreira, who apostatized at Nagasaki in 1633.

But the same could not be said of the English nation, which had in his view most foully apostatized from its pure creed, and most perfidiously betrayed the high commission it had received from Heaven.

She promised children to him, and obvious she forgot that promise just like she apostatized of his married votes.