Usually means: Pertaining to the apostles' teachings.
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  1. apostolic: Merriam-Webster
  2. apostolic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apostolic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apostolic: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Apostolic, Apostolic, apostolic: Wordnik
  7. apostolic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apostolic: Wiktionary
  9. apostolic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apostolic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apostolic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Apostolic, apostolic: Dictionary.com
  13. Apostolic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Apostolic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. apostolic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. apostolic: Rhymezone
  17. Apostolic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. apostolic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. apostolic: FreeDictionary.org
  20. apostolic: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  22. apostolic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. apostolic: Merriam-Webster

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (Christianity) Pertaining to apostles or their practice or teaching; pertaining to the apostles (of early Christianity) or their teachings.
▸ adjective:  According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or taught by the apostles.
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to the Catholic missions.

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apostolical, papal, apostematous, aposthic, apostrophal, apocryphal, patristical, Apollyonic, apocatastatic, Arian, more...

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apostolic church, Apostolic see, apostolic succession, Apostolic Age, Apostolic Fathers, more...

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apostolical, papal, apostematous, aposthic, apostrophal, apocryphal, patristical, Apollyonic, apocatastatic, Arian, more...

Types:
Roman, Greek, Oriental, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Albanian, more...

Phrases:
apostolic church, Apostolic see, apostolic succession, Apostolic Age, Apostolic Fathers, apostolic delegate, vicar apostolic, Apostolic Constitutions, apostolic nuncio, vicars apostolic, apostolic churches, more...

Adjectives:
vicar, first, prefect, vicariate, new, armenian, post, sub, see, present, protonotary

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    crimson,     scarlet,     cardinal,     ruby,     burgundy, more...



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