APODICTIC
APODIC'TIC,APODIC'TICAL, adjective [Gr. evidence, of an to show.]Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction; clearly proving. [Little used.]
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APODICTICAL
APODIC'TICAL, a. [Gr. evidence, of an to show.]Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction; clearly proving. [Little used.]
APODICTICALLY
APODIC'TICALLY, adverb So as to be evident beyond contradiction.
APODOSIS
APOD'OSIS, noun [Gr.] The application or latter part of a similitude.
APOGEE
AP'OGEE, noun [apogeon, apogeum; Gr. from, and the earth.]That point in the orbit of a a planet, which is at the greatest distance from the earth. The ancients regarded the eart...
APOGON
AP'OGON, noun A fish of the Mediterranean, the summit of whose head is elevated.
APOLLINARIAN
APOLLINA'RIAN, adjective [From Apollo.]The apollinarian games, in Roman antiquity, were celebrated in honor of Apollo; instituted adjective R. 542 after the battle of Cannae. Th...
APOLLINARIANS
APOLLINA'RIANS, in Church history, a sect, deriving their name from Apollinaris, bishop of Laodicea, in the 4th Century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ; maintaining th...
APOLLYON
APOL'LYON, noun [Gr. destroying.]The destroyer; a name used Revelation 9:11, for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.
APOLOGETIC
APOLOGET'IC,APOLOGET'ICAL, adjective [Gr. to speak in defense of; and speech.]Defending by words or arguments; excusing; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; as an ...
APOLOGETICAL
APOLOGET'ICAL, a. [Gr. to speak in defense of; and speech.]Defending by words or arguments; excusing; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; as an apologetic essay.
APOLOGETICALLY
APOLOGET'ICALLY, adverb By way of apology or excuse.
APOLOGIST
APOL'OGIST, noun [See Apology.]One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of another.
APOLOGIZE
APOL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To make an apology; to write or speak in favor of, or to make excuse for; followed by for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering my let...
APOLOGUE
AP'OLOGUE, noun ap'olog. [Gr. a long speech, a fable.]A moral fable; a story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey useful truths. An apologue differs from a parab...
APOLOGY
APOL'OGY, noun [Gr. discourse.]An excuse; something said or written in defense or extenuation of what appears to others wrong, or unjustifiable; or of what may be liable to disa...
APONEUROSIS
APONEURO'SIS,APONEU'ROSY, noun [Gr. from, and to send.]An expansion of a tendon in the manner of a membrane; the tendinous expansion or fascia of muscles; the tendon or tail of ...
APONEUROSY
APONEU'ROSY, n. [Gr. from, and to send.]An expansion of a tendon in the manner of a membrane; the tendinous expansion or fascia of muscles; the tendon or tail of a muscle.
APOPEMPTIC
APOPEMP'TIC, adjective [Gr. from, and a nerve.]Denoting a song or hymn among the ancients, sung or addressed to a stranger, on his departure from a place to his own country. It ...
APOPHASIS
APOPH'ASIS, noun [Gr. from, and form of speech.]In rhetoric, a waving or omission of what one, speaking ironically, would plainly insinuate; as, 'I will not mention another argu...
APOPHLEGMATIC
APOPHLEGMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. from, and phlegm.]Masticatory; having the quality of exciting discharges of phlegm from the mouth or nostrils.APOPHLEGMAT'IC, noun A masticatory; ...
APOPHLEGMATISM
APOPHLEG'MATISM, noun An apophlegmatic.
APOPHLEGMATIZANT
APOPHLEGMAT'IZANT, noun An apophlegmatic.
APOPHTHEGM
AP'OPHTHEGM,APOPH'YGE,APOPH'YGY, noun [Gr. from, and flight.]1. In architecture, the part of a column, where it springs out of its base; originally a ring or ferrel to bind the ...
APOPHYLLITE
APOPH'YLLITE, noun [Gr. from, and a leaf; so called because of its tendency to exfoliate.]A mineral occurring in laminated masses or in regular prismatic crystals, having a stro...
APOPHYSIS
APOPH'YSIS,APOPH'YSY, noun [Gr. from, and growth.]The projecting soft end or protuberance of a bone; a process of a bone.
APOPLECTIC
APOPLEC'TIC,APOPLEC'TICAL, adjective [See apoplexy.] Pertaining to or consisting in apoplexy, as an apoplectic fit; or predisposed to apoplexy, as an apoplectic habit of body.AP...