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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 Carlyle.

Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the In…

ding to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.

To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged. [Obs.] Gower.

A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty. A kind of appeal to the Deity, the author of wonders. Bacon.

To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Matt. vi. 16.

an appearance, to be present; to appear in person. -- To save appearances, to preserve a fair outward show.

Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. Sir M. Hale.

Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.

To apply. [Obs.] The act of faith is applicated to the object. Bp. Pearson.

inciples before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.

To visit. [Obs.] And he applied each place so fast. Chapman. Applied chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Applied mathematics. See under Mathematics.

A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton.

Capable of being apprehended or conceived. "Apprehensible by faith." Bp. Hall. -- Ap`*pre*hen"si*bly, adv.

The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.

Relating to the faculty of apprehension. Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. Sir W. Hamilton.

Movements to gain favor; advances.

Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; as, (a) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

nts, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.