renegado, n. (and a.)
(rɛnɪˈgeɪdəʊ)
Also 6 renigado, 7 rennegado, renegador.
[a. Sp. renegado, ad. med.L. renegatus: see renegate.]
1. = renegade 1.
| 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 186 He was a Renegado, which is one that first was a Christian, and afterwards becommeth a Turke. 1624 Bp. R. Montagu Gagg 238 The body of Babylas made the oracle mute, in despight of Julian that renegado. 1682 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 185 The English renegado, who is interpreter to the Morocco ambassador. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. vii. 62 This Relation I had from a very old Renegado, who was at the Tragedy. 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 190 A dignified informer, a French refugee, and a renegado to the Church of England. 1814 Southey Roderick ix, Might I meet That renegado, sword to scymitar, In open field. 1850 A. Jameson Leg. Monast. Ord. (1863) 348 The last to whom he was sold was a renegado. |
2. = renegade 2.
| 1600 Holland Livy ii. xi. 39 By the information of a renegado. a 1635 Sibbes Confer. Christ & Mary (1656) 33 They were renegadoes, having all left him. a 1680 Butler Rem. (1759) II. 408 A Rebel is a voluntary Bandit, a civil Renegado. a 1734 North Exam. i. ii. §9 (1740) 35 He out of pure Malice to the Government of his Country, prefers that of Holland, and in that Respect writes like a Renegado. 1780 in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) II. 437 Many renegadoes from the different Indian nations are collected at the..towns. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. iii. vii, Federalists in the Senate, renegadoes in the Army, traitors everywhere! |
b. transf.
| 1646 J. Hall Poems i. 68 A Renegado to all Poetry. 1654 Whitlock Zootomia 62 A Renegado from some Trade or Profession. 1689 Philopolites Grumble. Crew 2 But our Male-Contents..are such Renagado's from Common Sense, that [etc.]. 1715 M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 43 Even Canus accuses Cajetan for being a Renegado to the Fathers. 1748 J. Geddes Composition Antients 12 The most determined renegado to the interests of society. 1802 M. Edgeworth Irish Bulls 193 To such would be renegadoes we prefer the honest quixotism of a modern champion for the Scottish accent. |
† c. Used vaguely as a term of abuse. Obs.
| 1611 Beaum. & Fl. Philaster ii. iv, To bring these Renegados to my Chamber, At these unseason'd hours. |
† 3. A variety of the game of ombre. Obs.
| 1680 Cotton Compl. Gamester vii. 69 There are several sorts of this Game called L'Ombre, but that which is the chief is called Renegado, at which three only can play. |
4. attrib., passing into adj.
| 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. Ded., The Turkes Janissaries, and Basha's, are most of them renegado Christians. 1653 Greaves Seraglio 96 All the Eunuchs in the Seraglio..are chosen of those Renegado youths. 1677 W. Hubbard Narrative 59 The scouts brought in one Joshuah Tift, a Renegado English-man. 17.. in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 111 An English renegado slave translated Effendi Soif for them. 1798 Bragge in Anti-Jacobin (1852) 62 The recreant peer to renegado priest. 1829 W. Irving Granada (1850) 154 He singled out a renegado Christian, a traitor to his religion and his king. 1839 James Louis XIV, IV. 67 Pelisson..busied himself with renegado zeal in buying proselytes to the faith of the court. |
Hence reneˈgado v. intr., to turn renegado.
| 1704 J. Pitts Acc. Mohammetans ix. (1738) 200 Who after he was ransomed,..renegado'd. |