apostolic
adjective
of or characteristic of an apostle.
Example Sentences
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Even Latimer himself was discountenanced for his apostolical freedoms, by inveighing against the gentry, who sent their sons to college, instead of educating them at home for the church.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times, or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the apostolic age.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The earliest idea of an apostolical succession meant simply the re-emergence in others of the apostolic spirit of missionary enthusiasm.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
To preach one's life were hardly apostolical, though to live one's sermons might be greatly Christian.
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross
Epistles of Clement of Rome, which not only confirm the apostolical writings and evangels as being received in the Church of his day, but furnish the oldest liturgical prayer and sermon of post-apostolic times.
From Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures by Herman J. Heuser
