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单词 apostatize
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apostatizev.

Brit. /əˈpɒstətʌɪz/, U.S. /əˈpɑstəˌtaɪz/
Etymology: < late Latin apostatīzāre for earlier apostatāre , < apostata : see -ize suffix.
1.
a. To abandon or renounce one's religious faith or moral allegiance; to become an apostate.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > be or become apostate [verb (intransitive)]
renayc1300
to go backward1382
to fall awayc1384
to stand behindc1475
to turn (one's) tippet1546
relapse1563
backslide1581
apostate1596
apostatize1611
renegade1611
apostasize1696
renegado1731
renege1744
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Apostasier, to play th' Apostata, to Apostatize it.
1634–46 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 373 Who will not perjure themselves by apostatizing with perjured prelatts.
1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. xi. 115 A very great Part of the Angels apostatised.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 14 If ever he [Kirke] did apostatize, he was bound by a solemn promise..to turn Mussulman.
b. Const. from the original faith, to the new.
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1676 I. Mather Hist. King Philip's War (1862) 108 A wretched English man that apostatized to the Heathen.
1839 Blackwood's Mag. 46 817 All China apostatized to the new faith.
1845 tr. H. Latimer Let. in Serm. & Remains II. 313 Many princes and supreme pontiffs..have been found to apostatise from the faith.
2. gen. To abandon a principle, desert a party.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party or principles
declinec1374
starta1450
revert?a1525
to fall away1535
to turn (one's) tippet1546
revolt1549
shrink1553
to turn one's coat1565
to come over1576
apostate1596
to change (one's) sides1596
defect1596
renegade1611
to change foot1618
to run over1643
to face about1645
apostatize1648
tergiverse1675
tergiversate1678
desert1689
apostasize1696
renegado1731
rat1810
to cross the floor1822
turncoat1892
to take (the) soup1907
turn1977
1648 O. Cromwell Lett. liii. (Carl.) He apostatised from your cause and quarrel.
1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 177 To cast off reason..apostatize from humanity, and recoil into the bestial life.
1851 W. H. Dixon W. Penn iii. 82 Some of the courtiers had recently apostatised.
3. Medicine. To become resolved into a purulent discharge. (Cf. medical Greek ἀπόστασις suppurative inflammation.) Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > suppurate [verb (intransitive)] > burst
burstc1000
break1398
apostatize1651
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋236 Whatsoever has once apostatized into..corruption in the body.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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