apostatize

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Here in 1303 Custance de Daneport of Pontefract had apostatised and was to be received back; trouble seems to have begun in that year, for the Prioress Agnes de Screvyn resigned.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

A very small and insignificant number of priests and laymen in Germany apostatised and set up the Sect of 'Old Catholics'.

From The Purpose of the Papacy by Vaughan, John S. (John Stephen)

They swear that I apostatised To follow W.G.,

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 14, 1892 by Various

At Moxby, the other Cluniac house in the diocese, Archbishop Greenfield ordered the Prioress to receive back Sabina de Apelgarth, who had apostatised, but was returning in a state of penitence.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

I don't know why I have apostatised from the Mothers' Small-Clothes.

From The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie