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Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. "An apparitional soul." Tylor.

The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume.

An appendage. [Obs.]

The act of appending. [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.

Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something. Holland.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.

The quality of being apportioned or in proportion. [Obs. & R.]

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.

The act of setting 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.

oach; 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.