believers call themselves apostates due to the term's negative connotation. Many religious groups and some states punish apostates; this may be the official...

Apostatic may refer to: Apostatic selection, the selection by predators consuming abundantly occurring prey types Apostasy, the formal renunciation of...

Look up apostate or apostates in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An apostate is one who renounces their religion. Apostate or Apostates may also refer...

including those who deny a "fundamental tenet or creed" of Islam. An apostate from Islam is known as a murtadd (مرتدّ). While Islamic jurisprudence calls...

Neoplatonic Hellenism in its place, caused him to be remembered as Julian the Apostate in Christian tradition. He is sometimes referred to as Julian the Philosopher...

Apostatic selection is a form of negative frequency-dependent selection. It describes the survival of individual prey animals that are different (through...

Apostates is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. There is only one known species, Apostates rapae, endemic to Rapa Iti in the Tubuai Islands...

"rebellious" (Hebrew: מורד. translitterally Mored) Equivalent expressions for apostate in Hebrew that are used by rabbinical scholars include mumar (מומר‎, literally...

Eleutherodactylus apostates is a species of frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae endemic to the Massif de la Hotte, southwestern Haiti. It is sometimes...

Apostates is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae described by Warren in 1897. Its only species, Apostates solitaria, was first described by...