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Opposition to vaccination. London Times.

An antivaccinist.

Opposition to vivisection.

One opposed to vivisection

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.

The act of opening; an opening; an aperture. [Archaic] Wiseman.

or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs (Coccinella).

A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate.

Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. Milton. The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. Prescott. The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. "An apparitional soul." Tylor.

The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume.

An appendage. [Obs.]

The act of appending. [Obs.]

The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton.

Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something. Holland.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.