apostatize, apostatise

i. [Eng. apostate; -ize. In Fr. apostasier; Fr., Sp., & Port, a post a tar; Lat, a post a to (Cyprian); Gr. ἀποστατέω ( apostateō ) = to stand aloof from, to fall off from: ἀπό ( apo ) = from, and ἵστημι (histemi) = to make to stand. OΟι ἀπό ( apo ) = from, and στατίζω ( statizo ), poet, for ἵστημι ( histemi ).] 1. To rebel against God. [APOSTATE, S. & a.] 2. To abandon a faith which one has previously held, or desert a church with which one has been formerly connected. "Another had not indeed yet apostatised , but was nearly related to an apostate."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , chap. ix 3. Similarly to abandon a political faith which one has held, or desert a political party with which one has acted. a-pos-ta-ti-zing, a-pos-ta-tī-sing, pr. par. [APOSTATIZE.] ăp-os-tax-is, 8. [Gr. ἀπόσταξις (a post axis) = droppings; ἀποστάζω ( apostazō ), fut. ἀποστάξω (apostaxō) = to let fall drop by drop: ἀπό ( apo ) = from, and στάζω ( stazō ) = to let fall drop by drop. Or ἀπό ( apo ), and στάξις ( staxis ) a dropping; from στάζω ( stazō ).] Med. The fall of any fluid drop by drop, as blood from the nose. ( Parr .)