Anagrams of: ESCAPOLOGIST

• the branch of theology that is concerned with the defense of Christian doctrines

• offering or expressing apology

• a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)

• (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)

• of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings

• proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles

• a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution

• Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing

• a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment