a. [SUB- 18.] Belonging to or characteristic of the period in the history of the Church immediately following that of the apostles.
1880. Encycl. Brit., XI. 854/2. The history of the apostolic and subapostolic ages.
1881. Westcott & Hort, Grk. N. T., II. 296. Stray relics surviving from the apostolic or subapostolic age.
