APPEASEMENT
APPE'ASEMENT, noun The act of appeasing; the state of being in peace.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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APPEASER
APPE'ASER, noun One who appeases, or pacifies.
APPEASIVE
APPE'ASIVE, adjective Having the power to appease; mitigating; quieting.
APPELLANT
APPEL'LANT, noun [See Appeal.]1. One who appeals, or removes a cause from a lower to a higher tribunal.2. One who prosecutes another for a crime.3. One who challenges, or summon...
APPELLATE
APPEL'LATE, noun A person appealed, or prosecuted for a crime. [Not now used. See Appellee.]APPEL'LATE, adjective Pertaining to appeals; having cognizance of appeals; as 'appell...
APPELLATION
APPELLA'TION, noun [Latin appellatio. See Appeal.]Name; the word by which a thing is called and known. Spenser uses it for appeal.
APPELLATIVE
APPEL'LATIVE, adjective Pertaining to a common name; noting the common name of a species.APPEL'LATIVE, noun A common name in distinction from a proper name. A common name or app...
APPELLATIVELY
APPEL'LATIVELY, adverb According to the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively that is, as a ...
APPELLATORY
APPEL'LATORY, adjective Containing an appeal.
APPELLEE
APPELLEE', noun1. The defendant in an appeal.2. The person who is appealed, or prosecuted by a private man for a crime.
APPELLOR
APPELLOR', noun The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime.This word is rarely or never used for the plaintiff in appeal from a lower court, who is c...
APPEND
APPEND', verb transitive [Latin appendo, of ad and pendeo, to hand.]1. To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record.2. T...
APPENDAGE
APPEND'AGEnoun Something added to a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.Modesty is the appendage of sobriety.
APPENDANCE
APPEND'ANCE,APPEND'ANT, adjective1. hanging to; annexed; belonging to something; attached; as, a seal appendant to a paper.2. In law, common appendant, is a right belonging to t...
APPENDANT
APPEND'ANT, a.1. hanging to; annexed; belonging to something; attached; as, a seal appendant to a paper.2. In law, common appendant, is a right belonging to the owners or occupi...
APPENDED
APPEND'ED, participle passive Annexed; attached.
APPENDENCE
APPEND'ENCE, noun Something annexed. [Not used.]
APPENDICATE
APPEND'ICATE, verb transitive To append; to add to. obsolete
APPENDICATION
APPENDICA'TION, noun An appendage or adjunct. obsolete
APPENDICLE
APPEND'ICLE, noun A small appendage.
APPENDING
APPEND'ING, noun That which is by right annexed.
APPENDIX
APPEND'IX, nounplural appendixes. [Latin The Latin plural is appendices. See Append.]1. something appended or added.Normandy became an appendix to England.2. An adjunct, concomi...
APPERCEPTION
APPERCEP'TION, noun [ad and perception.]Perception that reflects upon itself; consciousness.
APPERCETIVE
APPERCE'TIVE, verb transitive To comprehend. obsolete
APPERIL
APPER'IL, noun Peril; danger, [Not in use.]
APPERTAIN
APPERTA'IN, verb intransitive [Latin ad and pertineo, to pertain, of per and teneo, to hold. Pertineo is to reach to, to extend to, hence to belong. See Tenant.]To belong, wheth...
APPERTAINING
APPERTA'INING, participle passive Belonging.