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Apologia
An apologia is a formal, reasoned defense of a person, belief, or practice against accusation, a sense carried from the Greek courtroom into religious apologetics, and never meaning regret.
Apology (Plato)
Plato's Apology of Socrates (Apologia Socratis), his only non-dialogue work, presents Socrates's defense speech (apologia) at his 399 BCE Athenian trial for impiety and corrupting the youth, ending in conviction, a death penalty, and arguments that death may be a blessing.
Apology of Hattusili III
The Apology of Hattusili III (CTH 81) is a Hittite text in which King Hattusili III justifies his seizure of the throne from his nephew Urhi-Teshub.
Apology Resolution
The Apology Resolution, Public Law 103-150 (S.J. Res. 19), is a 1993 US joint resolution signed by Clinton apologizing to Native Hawaiians for the 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, with a disclaimer against claim settlements.
Apongo
Apongo, also known as Wager, was a West African prince enslaved in Jamaica who became a principal leader of the 1760 Westmoreland uprising, part of Tacky's Revolt.
Aponte family
The Aponte family founded and owns MSC, the Geneva-based shipping group started by Gianluigi and Rafaela Aponte in 1970, now the world's largest container line.
Apophatic theology
Apophatic theology, also called negative theology or via negativa, approaches God through negation, saying what God is not. Rooted in biblical, Platonic, and Pseudo-Dionysian sources, it spans Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions and contrasts with cataphatic theology.
Apophenia
Apophenia (German Apophänie), coined by Klaus Conrad in 1958, is the tendency to perceive meaningful patterns in random data; originally a stage of delusion formation in early schizophrenia, now a general false-positive bias.
Aporia (πορία)
Aporia (ἀπορία), from aporos "without passage", is a philosophical impasse or puzzlement; central to Socrates' method, productive for Aristotle, and revived by Derrida in deconstruction.
Apostasy
Apostasy is the total rejection of one's religion by a former believer, called ridda in Islam; several countries criminalize it, in some cases on pain of death.
Apostille Convention
The Apostille Convention (1961 Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents) replaces multi-step consular legalization with a single Apostille certificate; 130 Contracting Parties, in force since 24 January 1965.
Apostle
An apostle, from Greek apostolos, is one sent with a sender's authority, the title the early Church gave leaders such as the Twelve and Paul.
Apostles in the New Testament
The apostles in the New Testament are people sent out with a commission, chiefly the Twelve chosen by Jesus, along with Paul, Barnabas, and other missionaries.
Apostles' Creed
The Apostles' Creed, also called the Symbol of the Apostles, is a Western Christian confession of faith in twelve articles, rooted in the baptismal profession of the church of Rome.
Apostol Margarit
Apostol Mărgărit (born 1832 or 1836, died 1903) was an Aromanian pedagogue who led Romanian-language schools in Ottoman Macedonia and joined the Romanian Academy in 1889.
Apostolic Fathers
The Apostolic Fathers are the earliest extant Christian writings outside the New Testament, Greek works from the late first and early second centuries whose authors knew the apostles' teaching.
Apostolic nunciature
An apostolic nunciature is the Holy See's permanent diplomatic mission in a state, headed by an apostolic nuncio, the pope's ambassador, who represents the pontiff to both the government and the local Catholic hierarchy, with precedence as dean of the diplomatic corps in many Catholic countries.
Apostolic Nunciature to Germany
The Apostolic Nunciature to Germany is the Holy See's diplomatic mission to Germany, headed since 2026 by Archbishop Hubertus van Megen and established in 1920 with Eugenio Pacelli as first nuncio.
Apostolic succession
Apostolic succession is the Christian doctrine that church ministry derives from the apostles through an unbroken line of bishops, required by Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Apostolic United Brethren
Apostolic United Brethren (AUB), also called the Allred group, The Work, or The Group: a Mormon fundamentalist denomination practicing plural marriage, led by Rulon C. Allred from 1954, headquartered in Bluffdale, Utah, with about 7,500 members.
Apostolic vicariate
An apostolic vicariate (Vicariat Apostolic) is a Roman Catholic territorial jurisdiction in mission regions, governed by an apostolic vicar in the Pope's name rather than a diocesan bishop.
Apostolos Tzitzikostas
Apostolos Tzitzikostas is a Greek politician serving as European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism since 2024, formerly Regional Governor of Central Macedonia and President of the European Committee of the Regions.
Apostrophe
The apostrophe is a punctuation mark used in English chiefly to show possession, as in the cat's meow, and to mark omitted letters in contractions, as in don't.
Apotheosis
Apotheosis (Ἀποθέωσις), also called divinization, is the act of granting a mortal the rank of a deity, best known from the deification of deceased Roman emperors.
Apotropaic magic
Apotropaic magic is protective magic intended to turn away harm or evil, using amulets, gorgoneia, garlic, incantation bowls, charms, and building marks, documented from Mesopotamia and Egypt through Greco-Roman, Byzantine, and early modern Europe.
Appa Sahib
Appa Sahib, also known as Mudhoji II Bhonsle, ruled the Kingdom of Nagpur, seized the throne in 1816, joined the Third Anglo-Maratha War, and died in exile in 1840.
Appakavi
Appakavi (అప్పకవి), fully Kākunūri Appakavi, was a seventeenth-century Telugu grammarian from Telangana whose Appakavīyamu, composed in 1656 at Kāměpalli in Palnādu, presented itself as commentary on Nannaya's grammar.
Appalachian English
Appalachian English, also called Appalachian speech, is the umbrella term for English varieties of the mountain region spanning eight eastern US states, marked by a-prefixing, done as a perfective, Scots-Irish settlement, stigma, and links to Ozark English.
Appalachian State University
Appalachian State University, also known as App State, is a public university in Boone, North Carolina, and a member of the University of North Carolina System.
Appalanaidu Kalisetti
Appalanaidu Kalisetti, born 1973, is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician who has represented the Vizianagaram constituency of Andhra Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2024.