Crossword-Solution: APOSTLE 7 letters, 135 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Apostle	n.	Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel.
Apostle	n.	The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.
Apostle	n.	A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
APOSTLE	anagram	ALEPOTS, LEAPSTO, PELOTAS, POLESAT, POSTALE

We have 135 clues for the answer “APOSTLE”

Clue	Answers
"Do this in memory of me" addressee	1 answer
"The Last Supper" figure	1 answer
Follower of Christ in the New Testament	1 answer
One of the twelve chosen disciples	1 answer
Follower of Christ, often sent to spread the message	1 answer
One of the original twelve chosen by Jesus	1 answer
A follower of Jesus	1 answer
Advocate English article following French article	1 answer
Andrew or Bartholomew, in the New Testament	1 answer
Andrew or Jude.	1 answer
Andrew or Paul	1 answer
Andrew or Thomas	1 answer
Any of 12 Biblical disciples	1 answer
Any of 12 at the Last Supper	1 answer
Any of a Last Supper 12	1 answer
Any of the group singing "Then when we retire we can write the gospels" in "Jesus Christ Superstar"	1 answer
Bartholomew or Simon	1 answer
Bartholomew, e.g.	1 answer
Biblical disciple	1 answer
Christian messenger	1 answer
Deliverer of text messages?	1 answer
Diner in "The Last Supper"	1 answer
Disciple brewed top ales (7)	1 answer
Doubting Thomas, for one	1 answer
Early Christian missionary	1 answer
Figure in "The Last Supper"	1 answer
Figure in a Leonardo mural	1 answer
James or James, e.g.	1 answer
James or John	1 answer
James or Judas, e.g.	1 answer
James, John or Jude	1 answer
John, James or Judas	1 answer
John, Luke or Paul, e.g.	1 answer
John, Thomas, or Mark	1 answer
John, e.g.	1 answer
Judas was a traitorous one	1 answer
Jude, for one	1 answer
Lake Superior islands	1 answer
Literally, "one who is sent off"	1 answer
Literary bread breaker	1 answer
Matthew or Matthias.	1 answer
Matthew or Simon	1 answer
Matthew or Simon Peter	1 answer
Matthew, Mark, Peter, or Paul	1 answer
Matthew, for one	1 answer
Messenger of the faith	1 answer
Mormon Church official	1 answer
New Testament disciple	1 answer
One charged with a high mission.	1 answer
One of 12 at the Last Supper	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AEERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with APOSTLE (5)

The young divine, whose scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labour for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds, for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for the infancy of the Christian faith.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Why will you refuse to listen to reason? I had hoped to find in you—as being a man of sense and an accomplished mathematician—a fit apostle for the Gospel of the Three Dimensions, which I am allowed to preach once only in a thousand years: but now I know not how to convince you.

Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994

Why will you refuse to listen to reason? I had hoped to find in you--as being a man of sense and an accomplished mathematician--a fit apostle for the Gospel of the Three Dimensions, which I am allowed to preach once only in a thousand years: but now I know not how to convince you.

Flatland: Edwin A. Abbot 1995

And George Coppard, proud in his bearing, handsome, and rather bitter; who preferred theology in reading, and who drew near in sympathy only to one man, the Apostle Paul; who was harsh in government, and in familiarity ironic; who ignored all sensuous pleasure:—he was very different from the miner.

Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995

The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with APOSTLE (3)

Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?

Alphonse de Lamartine History of Turkey

One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesu…

Bart D. Ehrman Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them

The spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it disposes us to go to God, and behave ourselves towards God as children; and it gives us clear evidence of our union to God as His children, and so casts out fear. So that it appears that the witness of the Spirit the apostle speaks of, is far from being any whisper, or immediate suggestion or revelation; but that gracious holy effect of the Spirit of God in the hearts of the sain…

Jonathan Edwards The Religious Affections

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 99 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).