renegate, n. (and a.) Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈrɛnɪgeɪt)
Forms: 4 ranegate, renagat, 6 rennagat(e, Sc. renigat(e, rennigatt, 6–7 rennegate, 4–7 renegat, 4–7 (9 dial.) renegate; 5 renogat, 6 ren(n)ogate. See also runagate.
[ad. med.L. renegāt-us, subst. use of pa. pple. of renegāre: see renay and renegue, and cf. It. rinegato, F. renégat, Sp. renegado renegado.]
1. A renegade, deserter.
| c 1375 xi Pains Hell 63 in O.E. Misc. 212 Bynd..ranegates with raueners..And cast ham in þe fuyre. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 401, I not where he be now a renagat. c 1400 Mandeville (1839) viii. 84 Julianus Apostate..forsoke his Law, and becam a Renegate. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 288/2 Now I shalle be callyd the wyf of a renegate and transgressour. 1535 Coverdale 1 Macc. vii. 24 He wente forth..and punyshed those vnfaithfull rennagates. 1565 T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 123 Whose first Apostles and preachers were al for the most part wicked rennagats. 1600 Holland Livy xxiii. xxvi. 491 These fugitiue renegates had first practised to raise troubles and insurrections. 1662 J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 220 marg., Our Persian Interpreter proves a Renegat. 1829 Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Renegate, a reprobate. |
2. attrib., or as adj.
| c 1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 238 Alle renogat robber..to put hem to peyn I spare for no pete. 1508 Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 401 Rawmowit ribald, renegate rehatour. 1534 More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1212/2 Manye other contumelies & dispightes, that the Turkes and the false renegate christiens manye tymes dooe. 1593 G. Harvey New Lett. Wks. (Grosart) I. 272 A wilde Asse, of a fugitiue and renegate disposition. 1609 Bible (Douay) Isa. xxx. 1 Woe unto renegate children, sayth the Lord. 1641 J. Trappe Theol. Theol. vii. 289 They refused Christ..for the which they are become a renegate people now 1600 years together. |