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The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. Milton. The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. Prescott. The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. Sir W. Scott.

To invoke. [Obs.] Milton.

th not yet appear what we shall be. 1 John iii. 2. Of their vain contest appeared no end. Milton.

n; look; aspect; mien. And now am come to see . . . It thy appearance answer loud report. Milton.

A challenger. [Obs.] Milton.

n called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton.

To divide into plots or parts; to apportion. Milton.

o apply an epithet to a person. Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied. Milton.

purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. [Obs.] Appoint not heavenly disposition. Milton.

signment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. A. Hamilton.

he faculty of apprehension. Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. Sir W. Hamilton.

to approve; to sanction officially. I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. Sir W. Hamilton.

or true; to prove. [Obs.] Wouldst thou approve thy constancy Approve First thy obedience. Milton.

adaptation. That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman. Milton.

ol; a ruler; a governor. Though Heaven be shut, And Heaven's high Arbitrators sit secure. Milton. Masters of their own terms and arbitrators of a peace. Addison.

A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.

r shrub. [Obs.] Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.

Formed by trees. [Obs.] From under shady, arborous roof. Milton.

An arch. [Obs.] Statues and trophies, and triumphal arcs. Milton.

urvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton. Triumphal arch, a monumental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.