apostolic

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

adjective of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings
adjective proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles

“Some apostolic minister, I fancy. — Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "Eight Cousins", Louisa May Alcott
I touched, as it were, scriptural times and apostolic men. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie
“I don’t pretend to say that Farebrother is apostolic,” said Lydgate. — Middlemarch, George Eliot

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