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One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic. Byron.

One who apes.

One who keeps an apiary.

One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha. [R.]

A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.

One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.

orth to preach the gospel. He called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles. Luke vi. 13.

s compiled by the same authors or author. -- Apostolic fathers, early Christian writers, who were born in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added. -- Apostolic king (or majesty), a title granted by th…

One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.

One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

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

A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.

shed from the 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.

Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

One who makes an appeal.

One who appears. Sir T. Browne.

One who appeases; a pacifier.

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