1. (a.) False; against one's faith\.

2. (n.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

3. (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade.

4. (v. i.) To apostatize.

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