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Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apotghem; sententious; pithy.

A collector or maker of apothegms. Pope.

To utter apothegms, or short and sententious sayings.

The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.

Glorification; exaltation. "The apotheosis of chivalry." Prescott. "The noisy apotheosis of liberty and machinery." F. Harrison.

To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc. Weale.

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

A decoction or infusion. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a decoction. [Obs.] J. Whitaker.

Not apodeictic; undemonstrable. [R.]

An accessory process in many lumbar vertebræ.

Good against apoplexy. -- n.

Same as Antapoplectic.

A sort of bar or movable nut, attached to the finger board of a guitar or other fretted instrument for the purpose of raising uniformly the pitch of all the strings.

A sort of cotton so short and fine thet it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.

A hood; especialy, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.

; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. Shak. The merry thought of a capon. W. Irving.

A young capon. [R.] Chapman.

A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.