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A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

Pertaining to antiperistasis.

One who apes.

A first view or glance, or the perception or estimation so obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative rather than analytic.

The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).

An aperient medicine or food. Arbuthnot.

Serving to open; aperient. Harvey.

Open; ev [Archaic] Fotherby.

The act of opening; an opening; an aperture. [Archaic] Wiseman.

Openly; clearly. [Archaic]

Openness; frankness. [Archaic]

An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

A place where apes are kept. [R.] Kingsley.

To perceive; to comprehend. Chaucer.

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.

Peril. [Obs.] Shak.

To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5.

That which appertains to a person; an appurtenance. [Obs. or R.] Shak.