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PRONUNCIATION OF APOSTATIC

apostatic  [ˌæpəˈstætɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APOSTATIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Apostatic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH APOSTATIC


antistatic
ˌæntɪˈstætɪk
astatic
æˈstætɪk
bacteriostatic
bækˌtɪərɪəʊˈstætɪk
cholestatic
ˌkəʊləˈstætɪk
cytostatic
ˌsaɪtəʊˈstætɪk
ecstatic
ɛkˈstætɪk
electrostatic
ɪˌlɛktrəʊˈstætɪk
epistatic
ˌepɪˈstætɪk
eustatic
juːˈstætɪk
haemostatic
ˌhiːməʊˈstætɪk
hemostatic
ˌhiːməʊˈstætɪk
homeostatic
ˌhəʊmɪəʊˈstætɪk
hydrostatic
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈstætɪk
isostatic
ˌaɪsəʊˈstætɪk
magnetostatic
mæɡˌniːtəʊˈstætɪk
metastatic
ˌmɛtəˈstætɪk
orthostatic
ˌɔːθəʊˈstætɪk
prostatic
prɒˈstætɪk
static
ˈstætɪk
thermostatic
ˌθɜːməˈstætɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE APOSTATIC

apostasies
apostasy
apostate
apostatical
apostatise
apostatize
apostil
apostille
apostle
apostle bird
apostle spoon
Apostles´ Creed
apostleship
apostolate
apostolic
apostolic delegate
Apostolic Fathers
Apostolic See
Apostolic succession
apostolical

WORDS THAT END LIKE APOSTATIC

aerostatic
atelectatic
automatic
biostatic
cryostatic
diastatic
ectatic
enhypostatic
fungistatic
geostatic
gyrostatic
homoeostatic
hyperstatic
lithostatic
nonstatic
photostatic
protatic
pyrostatic
rheostatic
siderostatic
telangiectatic

Synonyms and antonyms of apostatic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «apostatic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF APOSTATIC

Find out the translation of apostatic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of apostatic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «apostatic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

apostatic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

apostática
570 millions of speakers

English

apostatic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

apostatic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

apostatic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

apostatic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

apostatic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ধর্মত্যাগী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

apostatic
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Murtad
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

apostatic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

apostatic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

apostatic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Apostatis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

apostatic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

apostatic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

धर्मनिरपेक्ष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

apostatic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

apostatico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

apostatic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

apostatic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

apostatic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

apostatic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

apostatic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

apostatic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

apostatic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of apostatic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «APOSTATIC»

The term «apostatic» is used very little and occupies the 193.145 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «APOSTATIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about apostatic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APOSTATIC»

Discover the use of apostatic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to apostatic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Primate Anti-Predator Strategies
evolutionary outcome of females exhibiting mating preference for brightly colored males, like Bicca-Marques & Calegaro-Marques (1998), Cooper & Hosey (2003) did not consider apostatic selection. Just as the evolution of cathemerality was ...
Sharon Gursky-Doyen, K.A.I. Nekaris, 2007
2
Bird Coloration: Function and evolution
Apostatic Selection The avoidance image hypothesis (Paulson 1973; Rohwer and Paulson 1987) is a form of dishonest presence signaling that occurs independently of ambient backgrounds and is specifically based on receiver psychology.
Geoffrey Edward Hill, Kevin J. McGraw, 2006
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Coleridge, Form and Symbol, Or The Ascertaining Vision
Thus we have not two apostatic wills but two directions or tendencies which the apostatic will can choose. Ms B Supplementary (OM 358) gives a less well developed and probably slightly earlier version of the argument. This version does not ...
Nicholas Reid, 2006
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
The result of this process. cf. fitness, habitat selection apostatic selection □ n. □ Decreased natural selection against a rare-phenotype prey, increased natural selection for a common- phenotype prey, or both, because its predator has a ...
Edward M. Barrows, 2000
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Selection: The Mechanism of Evolution
Evidence for stabilizing and apostatic selection by wild blackbirds. Nature, 237: 348-349. Allen, J.A. (1974). Further evidence for apostatic selection by wild passerine birds: Training experiments. Heredity, 33: 361-372. Allen, J.A. (1975).
Graham Bell, 1997
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Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals
... and prey behavior (Clarke 1962; Cooper and Allen 1994; Allen 1988; Forsman and Appelqvist 1998; Kono, Reid, and Kamil 1998). Whether apostatic selection operates on birds and mammals in the wild is an open question, because ...
Tim Caro, 2005
7
The Evolution of Population Biology
When predation acts against common morphs within a species, the balancing force has been termed apostatic selection (Clarke 1962). When it affects the relative densities of different prey species it has been called switching (Murdoch 1969).
Rama S. Singh, Marcy K. Uyenoyama, 2004
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Comparative Cognition : Experimental Explorations of Animal ...
Additional analyses demonstrated that the equilibrium was a consequence of apostatic selection. One of the morphs happened to be somewhat more difficult to detect than the other two; whatever the starting numbers of the three morphs, this  ...
Edward A. Wasserman Department of Psychology University of Iowa, Thomas R. Zentall Department of Psychology University of Kentucky, 2006
9
Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach
Most evidence consists of apostatic prey selection, i.e. that a cryptic prey type is practically excluded from a forager's diet when it is rare, but is over-represented above some threshold abundance. Dawkins (1971) cautions that alternative ...
J. R Krebs, N. B Davies, 2009
10
History of Political Ideas
Apostatic. Movement. The Italian and Catholic elements in the pathos of Vico are inseparable. Something has happened in Italy that outweighs the transalpine achievements in science, and this something is animated by the Catholic spirit of  ...
Eric Voegelin, Barry Cooper, 1998

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APOSTATIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term apostatic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Redcar panto
Consequent to the 2010 General Election, wiseacre psephologists interpreted the grossly apostatic Redcar result as a reprisal for the economic ... «The Northern Echo, Feb 15»
2
Book Review: “Firing God” by Cheryl Abram
... a story of apostatic self-re-creation in the image of What Eternally Is. Firing God is a story of letting go of stories we tell ourselves and learning ... «PsychCentral.com, Dec 14»
3
Crisis: Ukraine to Strengthen Army Against Growing Russian …
... counterweight to a world they [US and EU] are building: an utterly apostatic, soulless world, where everything is based on materialistic values ... «Gospel Herald, Nov 14»
4
Arena: The 50 Year Argument, BBC Four
Still, it had some music – not folk, or apostatic electric guitar, but jazz, the quintessential smooth soundtrack of the New York intellectual (Tom ... «The Arts Desk, Jun 14»
5
No, Beauty is Not in the Eye of the Beholder
Not only is bragging about a stand against tradition in an apostatic, irreverent secular age a bit like bragging about burning churches in Egypt, ... «American Thinker, Apr 11»
6
Head-Fest 2007: Head-Fi Meets Silicon Valley
HeadRoom's Tyll Hertsen was showing an apostatic product: a non-headphone amp called the Desktop ($895). "Most audiophiles don't realize ... «Stereophile Magazine, Apr 07»
7
Pope and Islam
In countries under Islamic law, conversion to Christianity (or any other religion) is an apostatic crime. In Saudi Arabia, churches are forbidden. «New Yorker, Apr 07»
8
NCW CRITICISED OVER MARRIAGES
... will soon start a distance education course regarding finality of prophethood so as to make people aware of anti-Islamic and apostatic beliefs. «Milli Gazette, Feb 05»

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