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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.

The quality of being apprehensible. [R.] De Quincey.

The quality of being approachable; approachableness.

Nearness; propinquity. [R.] J. Gregory.

The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.

A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn. He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops. Macaulay.

Suitable; fit. [Obs.]

Wateriness. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.

The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.

Inflammation of the arachnoid membrane.

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.

Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited. For Jove is arbiter of both to man. Cowper.

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. [Archaic]

Of or relating to an arbiter or an arbitration. [R.]

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

In an arbitrary manner; by will only; despotically; absolutely.