- To renounce totally a religious belief once
professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held,
or the party to which one has previously adhered.
- Accepted belief - Body of teachings - dogma - Medico missed a train heading east in principle - Teachings collectively - Teaching; instruction. - That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true,
and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or
position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any
tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the
doctrine of chances.