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apostolic, a. and n.|æpəˈstɒlɪk|
Also 5–7 -ique, 6–7 -ike, 7 -ick.
[a. Fr. apostolique, ad. L. apostolicus, a. Gr. ἀποστολικός, f. ἀπόστολος: see apostle and -ic.]
A. adj.
1. Of or belonging to the Apostles; contemporary with the Apostles, as the Apostolic Fathers.
1549Nicene Creed in Bk. Com. Prayer, One Catholick and Apostolike Church. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. ii. (1636) 62 St. Matthew, and other Apostolike men. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. xvi. 58 Idolatry is as contrary to the Apostolick Doctrine, as any thing can be. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. cx, And apostolic statues climb To crush the imperial urn. 1847J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Ch. iii. 23 The British church was founded during the apostolic age.
2. Of the nature or character of the Apostles; befitting or suited to an apostle.
1549Coverdale Erasm. Paraphr. 1 Cor. xi. 7 Is it not an apostolique act to bring Corinthe..to Christes gospell? 1781Cowper Hope 583 His apostolic charity. 1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. II. 183 Illimitable, apostolic devotion to the service of the poor.
3. Of or pertaining to the pope as successor of St. Peter; papal.
1477Caxton Dictes 145 Defendour and directour of the siege apostolique. 1591Troub. Raigne K. John (1611) 42, I Pandulph of Padua, Legate from the Apostolike See. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. xiv. 323 Made dependent on the Apostolic See alone.
4. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Apostles (sense 3 d).
1832J. Spedding Let. 4 May in H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson (1897) I. 85 Only think of an ‘Apostolic’ dinner next Friday. 1900H. Sidgwick in A. & E. M. Sidgwick Henry Sidgwick (1906) ii. 35 It was rather a point of the apostolic mind to understand how much suggestion and instruction may be derived from what is in form a jest. 1906R. Fry Let. 12 Apr. (1972) I. 261 He's [sc. Cresswell's] the most interesting mind here.., quite Cambridge mind, speculative and detached, in fact, almost Apostolic. 1979L. Edel Bloomsbury i. 54 There were vivid memories of Apostolic weekends and walking tours. 1986Nature 13 Feb. 548/2 Several roots of Whitehead's later philosophy are to be found in his Apostolic comradeship.
B. n. A heretical sect. (See quot.)
1580Fulke Retentive 314 (T.) The apostolicks in their vow of continence. 1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1661) 36 Apostolicks, a kind of Anabaptists, because they would be like the Apostle, they wandred up and down the Countreys, without staves, shooes, money, or bags. 1751[See apostle 3]. |