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Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times, or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the apostolic age.

t of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.

Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

ed; to be obvious or manifest. It doth not yet appear what we shall be. 1 John iii. 2. Of their vain contest appeared no end. Milton.

and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate. E. Darwin.

ment; to equip; to fit out. The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward.

rments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords. The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. Prescott. I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Void of appoinment, that thou liest. Beau. & Fl.

To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value. To appreciate the motives of their enemies. Gibbon.

t at all apprehensive of evils as a distance. Tillotson. Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. Gladstone.

The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

-- used of things. My vines and peaches . . . were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit. Temple. This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant. Lubbock.

Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral. R. Cyc.

Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end. The aptness of his quotations. J. R. Green.

ion of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.

Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.

th America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.

bitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.

on, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration.

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

A contriver, designer, or maker. The architects of their own happiness. Milton. A French woman is a perfect architect in dress. Coldsmith.