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Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

Either entirely of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley.

To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by others.

rity; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.

The apogeotropic tendency of some leaves, and other parts.

Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.

Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apoplectic songs or hymns.

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.

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.

belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered. He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in Carlyle.

Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.

The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the In…

stolic canons, a collection of rules and precepts relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second and third centuries. -- Apostolic church, the Christian church; -- so called on account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order. The churches of R…

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

by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public.

perior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. We must all appear before the judgment seat. * Cor. v. 10. One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay.