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Apostate. An heretical and apostatical church. Bp. Hall.

The state or quality of being apostolical.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

Apparentness; state of being apparent. Coleridge.

rational horizon. -- Apparent time. See Time. -- Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive.

To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request. I appeal to the Scriptures in the original. Horsley. They appealed to the sword. Maca…

sion or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num. ix. 15. For man looketh on the outward appearance. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. Judge not according to the appearance. John. vii. 24…

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.

The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.

State of being appendant; appendance. [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.

The quality or state of being applicable. [R.]

rect a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. [Obs.] Crowley.

The state of being appointed to somappointment of treasurer.

The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood…

appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.

The quality or state of being apprehensive.

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.