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One who apportions.

The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. A. Hamilton.

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

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott.

Earnest prayer; devout wish. [Obs.] A solemn apprecation of good success. Bp. Hall.

A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.

Proof; attestation. [Obs.] Shak.

A drawing nigh; approach. [R.] Bp. Hall.

ng apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.

roach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.

A driving or striking against; an appulse.

Basking in the sun. [R.]

An a priori principle.

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

Plowing; tillage. [R.] Lands are said to be in a state of aration when they are under tillage. Brande.

Arbitrary; despotic. [Obs.] -- Ar`bi*tra"*ri*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]

The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.

The diocese of an archbishop.