• IPA: /ə.ˈpɒs.teɪt/, /ə.ˈpɒs.tət/

apostate (not comparable)

1. Guilty of apostasy.

   We must punish this apostate priest.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I ↗”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗, line 125:

     So ſpake th' Apoſtate Angel,

   • a wretched and apostate state

• German: abtrünnig, apostatisch
• Russian: отсту́пнический

apostate (plural apostates)

1. A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
2. (Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

• deconvert
• recreant
• withersake
• murtad

• apostasy
• apostatic
• apostatical
• apostatically
• apostatize

• French: apostat, apostate
• German: Abtrünniger, Abtrünnige, Glaubensabtrünniger, Glaubensabtrünnige, Apostat, Apostatin, Abgefallener, Abgefallene, Glaubensabgefallener, Glaubensabgefallene, Renegat, Renegatin
• Italian: apostata
• Portuguese: apóstata
• Russian: отсту́пник
• Spanish: apóstata