APOPLECTICAL
APOPLEC'TICAL, a. [See apoplexy.] Pertaining to or consisting in apoplexy, as an apoplectic fit; or predisposed to apoplexy, as an apoplectic habit of body.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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APOPLEXED
AP'OPLEXED, adjective Affected with apoplexy.
APOPLEXY
AP'OPLEXY, noun [Gr. from, to strike.]A sudden deprivation of all sense and voluntary motion, occasioned by repletion or whatever interrupts the action of the nerves upon the mu...
APORIA
APO'RIA, noun [Gr. from a way or passage.]1. In rhetoric, a doubting or being at a loss where to begin, or what to say, on account of the variety of matter.2. In the medical art...
APORIME
AP'ORIME, noun [See Apory.] A problem difficult to be resolved.
APORON
AP'ORON,AP'ORY,APOSIOPE'SIS,APOSIO'PESY, noun [Gr. of to be silent.]Reticence or suppression; as when a speaker for some cause, as fear, sorrow, or anger, suddenly breaks off hi...
APORY
AP'ORY,noun [Gr. from a way or passage.]1. In rhetoric, a doubting or being at a loss where to begin, or what to say, on account of the variety of matter.2. In the medical art, ...
APOSTASY
APOS'TASY, noun [Gr. a defection, to depart.]1. An abandonment of what one has professed; a total desertion, or departure from one's faith or religion.2. The desertion from a pa...
APOSTATE
APOS'TATE, noun [Gr.]One who has forsaken the church, sect or profession to which he before adhered. In its original sense, applied to one who has abandoned his religion; but co...
APOSTATICAL
APOSTAT'ICAL, adjective After the manner of an apostate.
APOSTATIZE
APOS'TATIZE, verb intransitive To abandon one's profession or church; to forsake principles or faith which one has professed; or the party to which one has been attached.
APOSTATIZING
APOS'TATIZING, participle present tense Abandoning a church, profession, sect or party.
APOSTEMATE
APOS'TEMATE, verb intransitive To form into an abscess; to swell and fill with pus.
APOSTEMATION
APOSTEMA'TION, noun The formation of an aposteme; the process of gathering into an abscess; written corruptly imposthumation.
APOSTEMATOUS
APOSTEM'ATOUS, adjective Pertaining to an abscess; partaking of the nature of an aposteme.
APOSTEME
AP'OSTEME, noun [Gr. from to go off, to recede; and to stand.]An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter; written also corruptly imposthume.
APOSTLE
APOS'TLE, noun [Latin apostalus; Gr. to send away, to sent.]A person deputed to execute some important business; but appropriately, a disciple of Christ commissioned to preach t...
APOSTLE-SHIP
APOSTLE-SHIP, noun The office or dignity of an apostle.
APOSTOLATE
APOS'TOLATE, noun A mission; the dignity or office of an apostle. Ancient writers use it for the office of a bishop; but it is now restricted to the dignity of the pope, whose s...
APOSTOLIC
APOSTOL'ICAPOSTOL'ICAL, adjective1. Pertaining or relating to the apostles, as the apostolic age.2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or taught by the apostl...
APOSTOLICAL
APOSTOL'ICAL, a.1. Pertaining or relating to the apostles, as the apostolic age.2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or taught by the apostles; as apostolic ...
APOSTOLICALLY
APOSTOL'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of the apostles.
APOSTOLICALNESS
APOSTOL'ICALNESS, noun The quality of being apostolical, or according to the doctrines of the apostles.
APOSTOLICS
APOSTOL'ICS, noun Certain sects so called from their pretending to imitate the practice of the apostles, abstaining from marriage, from wine, flesh, pecuniary reward etc., and w...
APOSTROPHE
APOS'TROPHE,APOS'TROPHIC, adjective Pertaining to an apostrophe noting the contraction of a word.
APOSTROPHIC
APOS'TROPHIC, a. Pertaining to an apostrophe, noting the contraction of a word.
APOSTROPHIZE
APOS'TROPHIZE, verb intransitive or t.1. To make an apostrophe, or short detached address in speaking; to address by apostrophy.2.verb transitive To contract a word by omitting ...