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Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.

So as to be evident beyond contradiction.

offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering my letter. To apologize for his insolent language. Froude.

Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- Ap*pall"ing*ly, adv.

A dependency; a dependent territory.

Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable. It is apparent foul play. Shak.

Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak.

on." Hallam. Party appellant (Law), the party who appeals; appellant; -- opposed to respondent, or appellee. Tomlins.

Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

l acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlin…

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

way; to the purpose; suitably to the place or subject; -- a word used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.

[L., water of life. Cf. Eau de vie, Usquebaugh], a name given to brandy and some other ardent spirits. Shak.

A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.

An evergreen tree of the cypress tribe, genus Thuja. The American species is the T. occidentalis.

in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.

A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.