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ved by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by others.

Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem; some will think it needs no excuse, and others will receive none. Dryden.…

he apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same authors or author. -- Apostolic fathers, early Christian writers, who were born in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added. -- Apostolic king (or…

ensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton.

To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.

ssigning 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.

her eyes; it is love's spring. Shak. April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.

Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison.

learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.

und in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebræ with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.

Archers, or bowmen, collectively. Let all our archery fall off In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. Webster (1607).

The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.

th and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.

ies (A. giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species A. Grayi inhabits Borneo.

Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic.

A ring of hair or feathers on the legs.

hich exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption. I hate not you for her proud arrogance. Shak.

The king was not more forward to bestow favors on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors. Fuller.