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APPROBATE v. 2 definitions
To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially. I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. Sir W. Hamilton.
APPROPINQUATE v.
To approach. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.
APPROPRIATE a. 6 definitions
. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.
APPROPRIATELY adv.
In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
APPROPRIATENESS n.
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
APPROXIMATE a. 5 definitions
Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
APPROXIMATELY adv.
With approximation; so as to approximate; nearly.
APRICATE v.
To bask in the sun. Boyle.
APTATE v.
To make fit. [Obs.] Bailey
AQUILATED a.
Adorned with eagles' heads.
ARBITRATE v. 4 definitions
To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.
ARCHIATER n.
Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities. P. Cyc.
ARCHIEPISCOPATE n.
The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.
ARCHONTATE n.
An archon's term of office. Gibbon.
ARCHPRELATE n.
An archbishop or other chief prelate.
ARCHPRIMATE n.
The chief primate. Milton.
ARCUATE; ARCUATED a.
Bent or curved in the form of a bow. "Arcuate stalks." Gray.
ARCUATELY adv.
In the form of a bow.
AREOLATE; AREOLATED a.
Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.
ARGENTATE a.
Silvery white. Gray.
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