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Apoplexy. [Obs.] Dryden.

Affected with apoplexy. [Obs.] Shak.

Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.

Doubting; skeptical. [Obs.] Cudworth.

A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.

A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

Without pores.

On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.

Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.

A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. Milton. A wretched and apostate state. Steele.

Apostatical. [R.]

Apostate. An heretical and apostatical church. Bp. Hall.

, 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.

To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

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

An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. [Written corruptly imposthume.]