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Apportionment.

esignation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

g; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. A. Hamilton.

The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.

Appraisement.

Approach. [Archaic] Holland.

peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification.[Obs.] If you can neglect Your own appropriaments. Ford.

Approbation. I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward.

Determination; decision; arbitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.

Proof; evidence. [Obs.] There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity. Ray. Why, then, is it made a badge of wit and an argument of parts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion South.

Admitting of argument. [R.] Chalmers.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.

true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth. Tyndale.

Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.

To argue or discuss. [Obs.] Wood.

body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. "The whole united armament of Greece." Glover.

An armory; a magazine or arsenal. [R.]

Of or pertaining to Armenia. Armenian bole, a soft clayey earth of a bright red color found in Armenia, Tuscany, etc. -- Armenian stone. (a) The commercial name of lapis lazuli. (b) Emery.

arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.

Clothes; raiment. [Obs.]