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The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.

ongregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

ogy; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay. "To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone." Macaulay.

An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.

The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone. [Obs.]

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

The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. Blackstone.

The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime. Blackstone.

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmo…

y apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.

ive of evils as a distance. Tillotson. Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. Gladstone.

of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. [Obs.] Blackstone.

To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. Blackstone.

ring or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

onverting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor. Blackstone.

nt thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. Common appurtenatn. (Law) See under Common, n.

A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.

Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.

p, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

dence of an archdeacon. See Benefice. Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries. Blackstone.