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A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical. [Written also antimoniate.]

Combined or prepared with antimony; as, antimoniated tartar.

antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate. Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws, and antiquate or abrogate old one. Sir M. Hale.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

Quality of being antiquated.

Antiquatedness. [Obs.]

Terminated abruptly by a small, distinct point, as a leaf.

To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

Shortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form.

An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn.

or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. Milton. A wretched and apostate state. Steele.

To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.

office, or mission, of an apostle; apostleship. Judas had miscarried and lost his apostolate. Jer. Taylor.

The diplomatic agent of the pope highest in grade, superior to a nuncio.

Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals. "Appellate jurisdiction." Blackstone. "Appellate judges." Burke. Appelate court, a court having cognizance of appeals.

To append. [Obs.]

Having small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.

Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number (Math.), one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

The quality of being apportioned or in proportion. [Obs. & R.]

To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value. To appreciate the motives of their enemies. Gibbon.