Apostolicity
of or characteristic of an .
pertaining to or characteristic of the 12 .
derived from the in regular succession.
of or relating to the pope; papal.
Historical Examples
This second authority, however, is not appealed to without the support of apostolicity.
The Making of the New Testament Benjamin W. Bacon
The catholicity of Rome began to overshadow the apostolicity of Anglicanism.
Edward Caldwell Moore Edward Moore
The principle of apostolicity was more strictly conceived and more surely applied.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack
Even those of larger content, such as Hebrews and Revelation, if their apostolicity was questioned, remained subjects of dispute.
The Making of the New Testament Benjamin W. Bacon
adjective
of, relating to, deriving from, or contemporary with the Apostles
of or relating to the teachings or practice of the Apostles
of or relating to the pope regarded as chief successor of the Apostles
adj.
early 15c., from French apostolique or directly from Church Latin apostolicus, from Greek apostolikos, from apostolos (see apostle). Apostolical also is early 15c.
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the sign (‘), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as in o’er for over, or pronounced, as in gov’t for government; to indicate the possessive case, as in man’s; or to indicate plurals of abbreviations and symbols, as in several M.D.’s, 3’s. a digression in […]
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to address by . to utter an . Historical Examples From Kew he turned to the great guardsman, and taking him by the coat began to apostrophise him. The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray But it’s not worth your while to apostrophise me, or the air, about it; what you want to do, you do. A […]
- Apostrophize
to address by . to utter an . Historical Examples But Janet kept her ground, and continued to weep and wail and apostrophize the dead mother, or appeal to the orphan child. Cruel As The Grave Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth With thoughts like these, however un-novel, I apostrophize ‘My Boy:’ The Knickerbocker, Vol. […]