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English Dictionary: Apostatizing by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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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