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Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times, or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the apostolic age.

In an apostolic manner.

Apostolicity. Dr. H. More.

The state or quality of being apostolical.

addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.

To address by apostrophe.

See Aposteme. [Obs.]

Glorification; exaltation. "The apotheosis of chivalry." Prescott. "The noisy apotheosis of liberty and machinery." F. Harrison.

To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

Capable of being apposed, or applied one to another, as the thumb to the fingers of the hand.

To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.

An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- Ap"po*site*ly, adv. -- Ap"po*site*ness, n.

The act of adding; application; accretion. It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot.

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott.

Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n.

Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable. A tale extremely apropos. Pope.

Watery; aqueous. [R.] Bailey.