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renegate, n. (and a.) Obs. exc. dial.|ˈrɛnɪgeɪt|
Forms: 4 ranegate, renagat, 6 rennagat(e, Sc. renigat(e, rennigatt, 6–7 rennegate, 4–7 renegat, 4–7 (9 dial.) renegate; 5 renogat, 6 ren(n)ogate. See also runagate.
[ad. med.L. renegāt-us, subst. use of pa. pple. of renegāre: see renay and renegue, and cf. It. rinegato, F. renégat, Sp. renegado renegado.]
1. A renegade, deserter.
c1375xi Pains Hell 63 in O.E. Misc. 212 Bynd..ranegates with raueners..And cast ham in þe fuyre. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 401, I not where he be now a renagat. c1400Mandeville (1839) viii. 84 Julianus Apostate..forsoke his Law, and becam a Renegate. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 288/2 Now I shalle be callyd the wyf of a renegate and transgressour. 1535Coverdale 1 Macc. vii. 24 He wente forth..and punyshed those vnfaithfull rennagates. 1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 123 Whose first Apostles and preachers were al for the most part wicked rennagats. 1600Holland Livy xxiii. xxvi. 491 These fugitiue renegates had first practised to raise troubles and insurrections. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 220 marg., Our Persian Interpreter proves a Renegat. 1829Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Renegate, a reprobate.
2. attrib., or as adj.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 238 Alle renogat robber..to put hem to peyn I spare for no pete. 1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 401 Rawmowit ribald, renegate rehatour. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1212/2 Manye other contumelies & dispightes, that the Turkes and the false renegate christiens manye tymes dooe. 1593G. Harvey New Lett. Wks. (Grosart) I. 272 A wilde Asse, of a fugitiue and renegate disposition. 1609Bible (Douay) Isa. xxx. 1 Woe unto renegate children, sayth the Lord. 1641J. Trappe Theol. Theol. vii. 289 They refused Christ..for the which they are become a renegate people now 1600 years together. |