Definition of Apostles

1. Noun. (plural of Apostle) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of apostle) ¹

3. Noun. (legal) Letters dismissory. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apostles

1. apostle [n] - See also: apostle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apostles

apostemate
apostemation
apostemations
apostematous
aposteme
apostemes
apostil
apostilb
apostilbs
apostille
apostilles
apostils
apostle spoon
apostle spoons
apostles
apostleship
apostleships
apostolate
apostolates
apostolic
apostolic delegate
apostolic succession
apostolical
apostolically
apostolicalness
apostolicities
apostolicity
apostolicness
apostosis

Literary usage of Apostles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"And are not all vagabonds from the apostles' power and inheritance, that are not in the same power and Holy Ghost the apostles were in, though they may talk ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"2, as also for the " apostles " of the second generation implied in the ... 15.4, " the apostles and teachers of the message of the Son of God," so 25. ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"This seems neither an attempt to merge the two canonical accounts (Zahn), nor proof that Papias knew not the Gospel of Matthew and the Acts of the Apostles; ..."

4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"Where did the apostles teach thee any such thing as the Catholic creed? ... Didst thou not learn this of the pope who apostatized from the apostles ? ..."

5. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"The blessed apostles, then, having founded and built up the Church, committed into the hands of Linus the office of the episcopate. Of i this Linus, ..."

6. Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies: Being Selections by Octavius Brooks Frothingham, John Wilson (1880)
"Most of the choicest and sublimes! truths of Christianity are to be met with in the Epistles of the apostles, they being such doctrines as were not clearly ..."

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