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Although deacons and priests have part of these offices, and therefore (though in a very limited sense) they may be called snecessores Apostolorum, to wit, in the power of baptizing, consecrating the Eucharist, and preaching, yet the Apostolate and Episcopacy, which did communicate in all the power, and offices which are ordinary and perpetual, are in Scripture clearly all one in ordinary ministration.

Bp. Taylor. Episcopacy Asserted, s. 4.

"You know, brother, [says Mr. Calvin,] that the fashion is otherwise with us: I bear with it because it is not profitable to contend :" a charitable rule, and worthy to be universal; and indeed little other than apostolical.

Bp. Hall. Peace-Maker.

He that is rightly and apostolically sped with her [the churches] invisible arrow, if he can be at peace in his soul, and not smell within him the brimstone of hell, may have fair kave to tell all his bags over undiminished of the least farthing.―Milton. Ref. in England.

He undertakes to conclude.-1. The right of the papacy to supreme universal monarchy. 2. The infallibility and apostolicalness of every article of the modern Roman faith, and both these with that irrefragable evidence of conviction, that belongs to grounds.-Hammond. Works, vol. ii. p. 190.

Tis well worth remarking upon this place, that the promise, ye shall sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes af Israel, was made to the Apostles at that time when Judas was yet one of that number; and consequently, the promise was as much made to him as to any of the rest. From whence it follows undeniably, that he was not predestinated necessarily to be a traitor, but fell from his Apostleship, and from his right to this promise, by his after-voluntary transgression. Clarke, vol. ii. Ser. 138.

Last, in the papal standard, they display
The triple crown, and apostolic key;

Sevin thousand valiant Romans march behind,
And great Camillo had the charge assign'd.

Brooke. Jerusalem Delivered, b. i. Having no general apostolical mission, being a citizen of a particular state, and being bound up, in a considerable degree by its public will, I should think it, at least, improper and irregular. for me to open a formal public correspondence with the actual government of a foreign nation.

Burke. On the French Revolution.

APOSTROPHE. Fr. Apostropher; It. APOSTROPHIZE. Apostrofo; Sp. Apostrofe; APOSTROPHICK. Lat. Apostrophe; Gr. Aroorpoon, aversio, from aroσтрepe, to turn away; ( (aо, and oтpepew, to turn.) See the quotation from Beattie.

The construction of words; whereunto apostrophus, an affection of words coupled and joined together, doth belong. Apostrophes is the rejecting of a vowel from the beginning or ending of a word.-B. Jonson. English Gram. b. ii. c. 1.

There is a peculiarity in Homer's manner of apostrophizing Eumæus, and speaking of him in the second person; it is generally applied only to men of account and distinction. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xiv. v. 41. Note. How absurd would it appear, in our temperate and calm speakers, to make use of an apostrophe, like that noble one of Demosthenes, so much celebrated by Quintillian and

Longinus, when justifying the unsuccessful battle of ChæDea, be breaks out, "No, my fellow-citizens, no; you have not erred. I swear by the manes of those heroes, who

fought for the same cause in the plains of Marathon and Fatza"-Hume. Ess. On Eloquence.

Apostrophe is a sudden change in our discourse; when, without giving previous notice, we address ourselves to a person or thing different from that to which we were addressing ourselves before. Beattie. Elements of Moral Science, pt. iv. c. 1. Sometimes when the singular terminates in ss, the apodrophic s is not added: as for goodness' sake. Murray. Grammar, pt. ii. c. 3. Alas! Tom thou smilest no more, cried the corporal, looking on one side of him upon the ground, as if he apostrophized him in his dungeon.-Sterne. Trist. Shandy. APPA'IR. The common word now is impair, (qv.)

To make or become worse, or less; to lessen, to weaken, to injure.

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Stow. Chronicles. The Romaynes. Dolp. Bastard of Orleans, thrice welcome to us. Bast. Me thinks your looks are sad, your cheere appal'd. Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence? Be not dismay'd, for succour is at hand.

Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 2. It was rather an execution, than a fight vpon them; in

somuch as the furious slaughter of them was a great discouragement and appalement to the rest.

Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 35. Does neither rage inflame, nor fear appall? Not the black fear of death that saddens all? Pope. Horace, b. ii. Ep. 2. She came with speed in her steps, and eagerness in her eye, and said, "Give me here John the Baptist's head in a charger." This savage request appalled even the unfeeling heart of Herod himself.-Porteus, vol. ii. Lect. 14.

Smiling ferocious, with impatient haste Striding, and brandishing his massy spear. Him [Ajax] view'd the Greeks exulting; with appal The Trojans; and with palpitating heart Ev'n Hector. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. vi. APPANAGE. Fr. Apanage, Appannage, Appennage; Law Lat. Appenagium, Appanagium. Menage and Caseneuve have written fully upon the origin of this word. Spelman favours the opinion, that Pana-gium is from Panis; or, if the word is properly written, Appenagium, he is inclined to believe it formed Ab, appendendo, quasi Appendagium junioris filii.

Age, the termination (Lat. Agium), he suggests, may be from Ag-ere, signifying, in composition, Actus, exhibitio, vel ministerium rei; Aquagium, he adds, from Festus, quasi Aquæ agium, id est, Aquæ ductus. In like manner, Homagium, actus vel ministerium hominis. Terragium, tributum quod terræ agit, hoc est exhibet. The root is not improbably the same A. S. Ec, eac, ac, (see AGE), denoting something added, put to or upon, imposed; charged upon.

Our old law language abounds with words in this termination. Wallis thinks we have it immediately from the Latin termination atio. See AVERAGE, BEACONAGE, &c. &c.—Appanage is,

The portion of a younger brother in France: lands, &c. assigned to younger sons, or brethren. See further in Cotgrave and Spelman. Lord Bacon calls the earldom of Chester a kind of appanage to Wales, which used to go to the king's son. Swift uses the word metaphorically.

With Pæan's purest fire his favourites glow,
The dregs will serve to ripen ore below;
His meanest work: for, had he thought it fit
That wealth should be the appannage of wit,
The God of light could ne'er have been so blind,
To deal it to the worst of human kind.
Swift. Ep. to Mr. Gay, 1731.

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He said to his countrey mote him saile,
And there he would her wedding apparaile.
Chaucer. Legend of Phillis.

In vengeaunce taking, in werre, in bataille, and in warnestoring, er thou beginne, I rede that thou appareile thee therto, and do it with gret deliberation. For Tullius sayth, that longe appareilling tofore the bataille, maketh short victorie.-Chaucer. Tale of Melibeus.

They be sinnes sothely: eke, if he apparaille his mete more deliciously than nede is, or 'ete it to hastily by likerousnesse.-Id. The Persones Tale.

The maiden is ready for to ride,
In a full rich aparaylment,
Of samyte green, with mickle pride
That wrought was in the orient.

Morte Arthur. Ellis. Romances, vol. i.
York. Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance.
The truth appeares so naked on my side,
That any purblind eye may find it out,

Som. And on my side it is so well apparrell'd, So cleare, so shining, and so euident, That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye. Shakespeare. Henry VI. Act ii. sc. 4.

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But yet was held to be the dearest thing
Both sides did labour for so much, to crown
Their cause with the apparency of might;
From whom, and by whom they must make their right.
Daniel. Civil War, b. vii.

Prin. My gracious father, by your kingly leaue,
Ile draw it as apparant to the crowne;
And in that quarrell, vse it to the death.

Shakespeare. 3 Part Hen. VI. Act ii. sc. 2.
Yea, and what sonne? the sonne whose swelling pride
Woulde never yelde one pointe of reverence,
When I the elder and apparaunt heire
Stoode in the likelihode to possesse the whole.
Sackville. Ferrex & Porrex, Act ii. sc. 1.
-Hesperus, that led

The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
Rising in clouded majesty, at length
Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Millon. Paradise Lost, b. iv.

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Mid al he was wel apayed and bileuede atte mete.
R. Gloucester, p. 117.
Be ghoure maneris withoute couetise, apaied with pre-
sent thingis.-Wiclif. Ebrewis, c. 13.

Ye shuld have warned me, or I had gon,
That he you had an hundred frankes paide
By redy token and held him evil apaide,
For that I to him spake of chevisance.

Chaucer. Shipmannes Tale, v. 13,320.
And thou shalt hold the well apaied
When such a frend thou hast assaied.-Id. R. of the R.
In stede of chambres well araied
He was than of a busshe well apaied.-Gower. Con. A. b. 1.

We are infinitely more beholden to our pain, than to our ease; and have reason, not only to be well apaid, but to rejoice in tribulations.-Bp. Hall. Temptations Repelled.

Yet when at last thy toils but ill apaid,
Shall dead thy fire, and damp its heavenly spark,
Thou wilt be glad to seek the rural shade,
There to indulge the Muse, and Nature mark.
Thomson. Castle of Ind. c. 1.

APPE/ACH, v. Used by old writers as we
APPEACHMENT. now use impeach (qv.) and
APPEACHER.
PEACH.
To withstand; and, consequentially,-
To put upon trial, to accuse.

As if there were twoo men that had sworne the death of another because they cannot brynge it aboute, they imagyne how thei may bryng him to all the shame and vexacion that they can, and therupon they apeache him of hiresye. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 968. Well these are woordes and farre beyōd my reach, Yet by the way receyue them well in worth; And by the way, let neuer Licques appeach My rayling penne. Gascoigne. The Fruites of War.

For the lawe is not authour of synne, but the vtterer and apeacher therof, wherof before the lawe gyuen we wer in manner ignorant.-Udal. Romaynes, c. 7.

Was that worth his considering, that foolish and selfundoing declaration of twelve cypher bishops, who were immediately appeach'd of treason for that audacious declarating.-Milton. Answer to Eikon Basilike.

After that Themistocles (saith he) was fled, the people of Athens became very stubborn and insolent: whereupon, many lewd men grew to be common appeachers and accusers of the noble men and chiefest citizens, and to stir up the malice and ill will of the common people against them. North. Plutarch, p. 286.

Since faults loath nothing more than the light, and men love nothing more than their faults; and, therefore, what through the nature of the faults and fault of the persons, it is impossible so violent an appeachment should be quietly brooked.-Bp. Hall. Postscript to his Satires.

Nor canst, nor dar'st thou, traitor, on the plain, Appeach my honour, or thine own maintain, Since thou art of my council, and the friend Whose faith I trust, and on whose care depend.

Dryden. Palamon & Arcile, b. i.

APPEAL, v. Fr. Appeller; It. Appellare; APPEAL, N. Sp. Apelar; Lat. Appellare, APPEALABLE. to call to or upon, from ad, APPE'ALANT. and pellere (cum notaret loqui. APPE ALER. Vossius.) See APPELLANT. APPEALMENT. To call upon, as judge or witness; for judgment or evidence; to alter or reverse a judgment already given; to refer (sc.) to a judge or umpire.

To speak to; in prayer or accusation; to

accuse.

Guf any play [plea] to chapitle were idrawe, & eni man made his apel, guf men did him unlawe, That to the bissop fram ercedekne is apel sold make, & from bissop to erchbissop.-R. Gloucester, p. 473. S. Anselm therfor appeld vnto the courte of Rome. R. Brunne, p. 101.

That wote I well my lorde (quod he).
Fro thy lordship appele I nought,
But fro thy wrath in all my thought
To thy pitee stant myn appele.-Gower. Con. 4. b. vii.

That daie maie no counsaile auaile,

The pledour and the plee shall faile,
The sentence of that ylke daie

Maie none appele sette in delaie.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii. All men may appeale vnto this place, and may not appeale from this city, but only into Spaine before the king; and it must be for a certaine summe; and if it be under that summe then there is no appellation from them. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 463.

And he [Richard the 2d] framed there also an appellation, and there it was ordeyned that certeine appellers should lay vnto them highe treason in open parliament.

Grafton. Rich. II. an. 21.

A combat was fought at Westminster in the king's presence, betweene Jo. Ansley, knight, and Thomas Catrington, esquier, whom the foresaid knight had appealed of treason. Stow. Chronicles, an. 1380.

Then agen

I do refuse you for my judge, and heere
Before you all, appeale unto the Pope,
To bring my whole cause 'fore his holinesse,
And to be iudg'd by him.

Shakespeare. Henry VIII. Act ii. sc. 4. Bul. First heauen be the record to my speech, In the deuotion of a subiect's loue, Tendering the precious safetic of my prince, And free from other misbegotten hate, Come I appealant to this princely presence.

Id. Richard II. Act i. sc. 1. Bul. Lords appealants, your differeces shal all rest vnder gage,

Till we assigne you to your dayes of tryall.

Id. Ib. Act iv. sc. 1. The scout is chosen by the States, who with the balues have the judging of all criminal matters in last resort without appeal; they have also the determining of civil causes, but those are appealable to the Hague.

Howell, b. i. s. 2. Let. 15.

A combate was fought at Totehill, betweene two theeves, the appealer and defendant: the appealer had the fielde of the defendant within three strokes.

Stow. Chronicles, an. 1441.

The king [Rich. II.] sayd, make answere unto thine appeale. The earle answered, I see well that these persons haue accused me of treason, shewing the appealements, but truly they all lie, I was never traitour.

Stow. Chronicles, an. 1397. Long have we sought t' instruct and please mankind, With studies pale, with midnight vigils blind; But thank'd by few, rewarded yet by none, We here appeal to thy superior throne: On wit and learning the just prize bestow, For fame is all we must expect below.

Pope. Temple of Fame. If I should sometimes have occasion, which will be but seldom, to appeal to the Scriptures in the original language, it will not be to impose a new sense upon the texts which I may find it to my purpose to produce.-Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 1. APPEAR, v. Fr. Apparoir; It. Apparire; APPEAR, n. Sp. Aparecer; Lat. Apparere, APPEARANCE. (ad-parere); the Greek aрAPPEARER. ev, adesse; to be near to, to be present.

APPEARING. APPEARINGLY. To come into sight or view; within perception, observation, notice, to shew, to seem, to look, to be likely.

Kindly heauen, when merry weather is aloft, appeareth in mannes iye of colour in blewe, steadfastnesse in peace, betokening within and without.-Chaucer. Test. of Love, b.ii. To whom in slepe the wonted godheds forme Gan ay appear, returning in like shape As semed him; and gan him thus aduise : Like unto Mercury in voice, and hue, With yelow bushe, and comely lymmes of youth. Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. [They] set out themselues in the sight of the simple people in outwarde apperaunce of holines, where as in the sighte of God they haue an vncleane coscience, defiled & marked & printed with many markes of worldly lustes. Udal. Timothie, cap. 4. c. 1. Whan ye kyng [Henry the seconde] was warned, both of his firste sodeyne aperynge, & of his departynge, ye kynge set it neere his mynde, & entendyd to doo some thynges after yt mannys cousayl; but how it was, it had no forwarde.-Fabyan, c. 137.

And in the beginning of this mans tyme, the grounde waxed barrein, and all the miseries before signified by the appering of the blasing starre in the dayes of Edwarde, now began to take place and encrease vpon the earth.

Grafton. The Danes. Our greatness will appear Then most conspicuous, when great things of small, Useful of hurtful, prosperous of adverse We can create. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. Per. Here will I wash it in this morning dew, Which she on every little grass doth strew In silver drops against the sun's appear: 'Tis holy water, and will make me clear.

Beaum. & Fletch. Faithful Shepherdess. That furious Scot, (The bloody Dowglas) whose well-labouring sword Had three times slaine th' appearance of the King, Gan vaile hie stomacke, and did grace the shame Of those that turn'd their backes.

Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. IV. Act i. sc. 1. That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.-Brown. Vulg. Err. b. v. c. 21.

At last, in the fulness of time, for the comfort of God's Church, there shall come forth a rod out of the seeminglywithered stock of Jesse, the father of David; and a flourishing branch, even the Messiah, shall grow out of his appearingly-sere and sapless root.

Bp. Hall. Paraph. on Isaiah. The world was fall'n into an easier way; This age knew better than to fast and pray. Good sense in sacred worship would appear, So to begin, as they might end the year. Dryden. Hind & Panther. Portius. Marcus, I know thy generous temper well; Fling but th' appearance of dishonour on it, It strait takes fire, aud mounts into a blaze. Addison. Cato, Act i. sc. 1.

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He whyche verylye woulde entende to pacifie swage and ep a grudge woulde extenuate the causes and occasyons De grudge. But nowe thys appeasoure contrarye wyse, toelye dothe in all these thynges the contrarye, but bryneth foorthe also besyde all thys, some suche fautes mo, wythey were trewe, were of the greatest weyght. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 871. Therefore trustyng on hys mercye, let vs goe vnto hys sexte, not hys terrible, but appeaceable seate, whiche is ready Leipe, and not to destroye vs.-Udal. Hebrues, c. 4.

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The fallacy lieth in the Homonymy of Ware, here not taken from that town so named, but appellatively for all vendible commodities.-Fuller. Worthies. Hartfordshire.

This I know, it had been hard (if not impossible) for him to hold on the same rate, and reduce the proper names in the genealogies following to such an appellativeness as should compose a continued sense.-Id. Ib. Suffolk.

These immortal productions are never likely to reach your eyes, though each of them is now an humble and an earnest appellant for the laurel, and has large comely volumes ready to shew, for a support to his pretensions. Swift. Tale of a Tub, Ded.

In ye V. yere of this Charlys he called his coucell of paryamet at Paris, during ye which the appellacyons of ye erle of Armenake & other purposed ageyn prince Edwarde were Pssted & rad, & ye answeris of ye sayd prince vppo Te sayd appellarons made, which I ouer passe for length of the matier.-Fabyan, an. 1364.

Sting that he requireth, that letters dimissories or appictories might be giuen him according to the lawe, and that for his better safegard hee did submitte himselfe vnder the protection of the king.

Though the title of king had long been disused, the earls of Derby, as lords of Man had maintained a sort of royal authority therein; by assenting or dissenting to laws, and exercising an appellate jurisdiction.

Blackstone. Commentaries, Introd. § 4.

If it be objected to the contrary, that in Scripture he is ranked amongst the quadrupedes, it will be answered, that anerns there are not real, but metaphorical (rendered appellatively robusti in some translations.)

Puller. Worthies. London.

Foa. Actes & Monum. Edw. VI. p. 1207. As the Pagan nations had, besides appellatives, their several proper names for God, so also had the Hebrews ts and such as being given by God himself was most expressive of his nature, it signifying eternal and necessary existence-Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 260.

He that shall use the appellative name for God, either in the Scythian, Egyptian, or any other language, which he bath been brought up in, will not offend.-Id. Ib. p. 257.

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If, in this one point, wherein the distance is so narrow, we could condescend to each other; all other circumstances and appendances of varying practices or opinions might, without any difficulty, be accorded.

The French tongue hath divers dialects, viz." the Picardy, that of Jersey and Guernsey, appendixes once of Normandy. Howell, b. iv. Let. 19.

The soul resulting from some disposition of the body, or some part of it, or being some merely material appendix to it, must attend it, and come along with it from the parent or parents.-Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5.

Hall. Peace-Maker, c. 1. s. 6. Abraham, refusing to have it by gift, bought the whole field, and by right of appendency had the cave with it. Spelman. De Sepultura, p. 176. The plainest truth and purity of religion is a thing that seldom pleaseth and suiteth to the curiosity and appetite of men; they are always fond of something annexed or appendicated to religion, to make it pleasing to their appetite.-Hale. Contem. Of Religion, c. 3.

Thou gav'st me this protector; honour, truth,
Humanity, and wisdom, like thy own,
Were his appendage.

All around we have beautiful views, consisting of woody fore-grounds, and of distances composed of different parts of this little estuary, and its appendant mountains. Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

There are some great and considerable parts and integrals and appendications unto the mundus aspectabilis, that we see, that are purely impossible to be eternal.

Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 74.

Glover. Atheniad, b. xxvi.

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This philosopher [Leibnitz] makes a distinction between perception and what he calls apperception. The first is common to all monads, the last proper to the higher orders, among which are human souls. By apperception he understands that degree of perception which reflects, as it were, upon itself; by which we are conscious of our own existence, and conscious of our perceptions; by which we can reflect upon the operation of our own minds, and can comprehend abstract truths.-Reid, Ess. 2. c. 15.

APPERIL. Peril. (qv.)

Aper. Let me stay at thine apperill, Timon,
I come to obserue, I giue thee warning on't.
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act i. sc. 2.
-Now, don constable,

I am to charge you in her majesty's name,
As you will answer it at your apperil,

That forthwith you raise hue and cry in the hundred.
B. Jonson. Tale of a Tub, Act ii.

APPERTAIN. APPERTAINMENT. APPERTENANTE, or APPU'RTENANCE. APPERTISCENT, or APPURTENANT, n. & adj. To keep or hold to; to concern, to relate to.

Fr. Appartenir; It. Appartenere; Sp. Pertenecer; Lat. Adpertinere, (per-tenere, to keep.) See to PERTAIN. join, to belong to, to

And for as moche as they yeven ther as they shuld nat yeven, to hem apperteineth thilke malison, that Crist shal yeve at the day of dome to hem that shall be dampned. Chaucer. The Persones Tale. Ther is also ful many another thing, That is unto our craft apperteining, Though I by ordre hem nat rehersen can.

Id. Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,254. Now cometh hasardice with his apertenauntes, as tables and rafles, of which cometh deceit, false othes, &c. Id. The Persones Tale.

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He answereth to certaine places of St. Augustine, and
Chaucer. The Legend of Hypsiphile. sayth, all (Ecolampadius enterprise to depend vpon coniec-
tures and argumentes applausible to idle wittes.
Gardner. Explication, b. i.
Pro. Here is her hand, the agent of her heart;
Here is her oath for loue, her honour's paune;
O that our fathers would applaud our loues,
To seale our happinesse with their consents!

Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i. sc. 3.

Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act i. sc. 1.

The benefit of the change is a just motive to our appetition; but to call for death out of a satiety of life, out of an impatience of suffering, is a weaknesse unbeseeming a saint. Bp. Hall. Contemp. Elijah Running. Our action requireth two things; to wit, the apprehension or imagination of that which is convenient and familiar, and the instinct or appetition driving unto the same.

Holland. Plutarch, p. 917.

We see in vegetables a resemblance of appetition, elec

tion, generation, and in some of them an imperfect image
of that universal sense of feeling which we find more per-
fectly in animals.-Hale. Orig. of Mankind, c. 1. p. 16.

The appetitive being stirred up by the imaginative, moveth a man effectually to those things which are proper and convenient for him.-Id. Ib.

The will therefore is that other great faculty of the reasonable soul, and it is not a bare appetitive power as that of the sensual appetite, but is a rational appetite, and is considerable.-Id. Ib. p. 58.

And the reason of this is, because all good, as such as in its degree a proper object for the will to choose; and whatsoever is a proper object of its choice is also sufficient to draw forth, and determine the actings of it, unless there interpose some stronger appetible, to rival or overmatch it in its choice.-South, vol. iv. Ser. 5.

Over the appetites and passions themselves, they [brutes] have no government; no moral judgment or discernment of the difference of good and evil; no superiour light or direction, by which to suppress a hurtful appetite, or over-rule the instincts of passion; and therefore are not at all accountable for any thing they do.-Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 39.

Who is there that has not instigated his appetites by indulgence, or suffered them, by an unresisting neutrality, to enlarge their dominion, and multiply their demands? Johnson. Rambler, No. 7.

The word appetite, in common language, often means hunger, and sometimes, figuratively, any strong desire. Beattie. Elements of Moral Science, pt. i. c. 2.

The present example precisely contradicts the opinion that the parts of animals may have been all formed by what is called appetency, i. e. endeavour, perpetuated, and imperceptibly working its effect, through an incalculable series of generations.-Paley. Nat. Theology, c. 9.

APPLAUD.
APPLAUDER.

APPLAUSE.

APPLA'USIVE.

logy, to clap or beat.)
To clap with the hands, or beat with the feet;
to raise any noise or clamour, in token of appro-
bation, or praise; and, consequentially-

To praise, to approve, to commend.

And that we are to hope better of all these supposed sects and schisms, and that we shall not need that solicitude, honest perhaps, though over-timorous, of them that vex in this behalf, but shall laugh in the end at those malicious applauders of our differences, I have these reasons to persuade me.-Milton. Areopagitica.

Brut. Another generall shout!

I do belieue, that these applauses are

For some new honors that are heap'd on Cæsar.
Shakespeare. Julius Caesar, Act i. sc. 2.

To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once,
Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent
Of that alluring fruit, urg'd me so keen.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix.
After the conquest of Afric, Greece, the Lesser Asia, and

Fr. Applaudir; It. Applau
dire; Sp. Aplaudir; Lat. Ap-
plaudere, to clap at, (ad, and which we interpret apples, and might signs of their maid.
unsettled etymo-

signify no more at first, but were afterwards applied to many other foreign fruits. Sir Wm. Temple. On Gardening.

On Kent's rich plains, green hop grounds scent the gales;
And apple-groves deck Hereford's golden vales.
Scott. Amoebaan. Ec. 2.

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APPLE. A. S. Epl, appel, apple; D. Appel; Ger. Apfel. Wachter seems most worthy of attention; he conjectures that the word has reference to roundness; ab intensivo A. and bal, bol, The rotundus, quasi fructum, valde rotundum. reason of this opinion is, that all the dialects call all round fruits by this name, etiamsi poma non sint. The apple of the eye, he considers to be so called from its roundness. See APFEL, in Wachter. To apple, i. e. to form into a ball, is a common term in gardening.

Cowper. Task, b. ii.

Tho thogte hym in ys slepe, that an hey tre he say
Stonde there bysydes hym, as he byhuld an hey.
Upe the hexte bowe tueye applen he sey.
And the bowes of the on appel smyte other vaste
So harde, that he vel adoun in the water atte laste.
R. Gloucester, p. 283.

But Venus saide, if that she might
That apple of my yefte gette,
She wolde it neuermore foryete,
And saide, howe that in Grece londe
She wold bryng in to myn honde
Of all this erth the fairest,

So that me thought it for the best

To hir and yafe the apple tho.-Gower. Con. A. b. v.

Together with my lady's fortune fell; and of her gentleman-usher I became her apple-squire, to hold the door, and keep centinel at taverns.-Nabbes. Nicrocosmus, Act v.

APPLOT; i. e. to plot, in the consequential usage of the word. See PLOT.

To scheme, to contrive, to plan.

It is concluded, accorded, and agreed upon, and his majesty is graciously pleased, that in the directions which shall issue to any such county, for the applotting, subdividing, and levying of the said public assessments, some of the said Protestant party shall be joined with others of the Roman Catholic party to that purpose, and for effecting that service. Art. of Peace between the Rom. C. and Lord Lieu. of Ireland, 1648.

A wise and thrifty invention sure, and well contriv'd, and rightly applotted, according to every man's need, and according as they suspect his bill shall amount to.

Bp. Taylor. Dissuasive, pt. i. s. 3.

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APPLIER.

APPLIEDLY.

A'PPLIMENT.

APPLIABLE.

APPLIANCE.
A'PPLICANT, n.
ploy; to direct, to address.

My sonne, as I shall the informe,
There ben yet of an other forme
Of dedly vices seuen applied,
Whereof the herte is often plied
To thyng, whiche after shall hym greeue.

Gower. Con. 4. b. i.

Since loue will needs that I shall loue,
Of very force I must agree,
And since no chaunce may it remoue,
In wealth and in adversitie,

I shall allway myselfe apply,
To serve and suffer paciently.

Wyatt. The Louer determineth, &c.

I say yt the spirite dwelleth in him and helpeth him to cötinue such [a faythful man] as longe as the man wyll by ye applieng of hys own wyll contine wyth the spirite. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 540.

Uppon the seeds whereof wyth the good helpe of goddes ace, there springeth after in the good and well appliable wy? of man, yt fruit of credence and beliefe whych thei giue

Vito Christes catholyke churche.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 705.

Is. There spake my brother: there my father's grave
Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die:
Thou art too noble, to conserue a life

In base appliances.—Shakes. Meas. for Meas. Act iii. sc. 1.
At each behind

A seraph stood, and in his hand a reed

Stood waving tipt with fire: while we, suspense,
Collected stood within our thoughts amus'd
Not long for sudden all at once their reeds
Put fixth, and to a narrow vent applied
With nicest touch.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.

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He that applied the words of any language to ideas diffront to those to which the common use of that country «es them, however his own understanding may be filled with truth and light, will not by such words be able to convey Each of it to others, without defining his terms. Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 10. The knowledge of the distinction of salts which we have posed, may possibly (by that little part, which we have Brady delivered, of what we could say of its applicableness) appear of much use in natural philosophy.

Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 765. The art of faith is applicated to the object according to the ature of it.-Pearson. On the Creed, Art. ix.

But as the light of the sun, diffused in the air, fires ching but the beams contracted in a glass kindle proper Eater: so the considering of the common salvation, will act he so affecting, nor so warm and soften the heart, as the arious applicative thoughts of it to ourselves.

Bates. Spiritual Perfection unfolded, &c. c. 8. The directive command for counsel is in the understandand the applicative command for putting in execution atz vll—Bramhall. Against Hobbes.

The several heads or uses we are to insist upon, must not bere be handled in a general notional way, as in the doctrisal parts: but in such a home and applicatory manner, as may have some peculiar reference unto the hearers. Wilkins. Ecclesiastes.

How necessary is it to examine scrupulously the applicaon of every figure, that we may not be imposed on by false appearances?-Bolingbroke. Ess. On Hum. Knowledge.

APPOINT.
AFPOINTER.
AFPOINTMENT.

To point, or bring to a point; to point out, to fix or establish a point; to provide or furnish at all points. Appoint not, (in Milton,) Point not

at, sc. as the cause.

Fr. Appoincter, Appointer; from the Lat. Ad-punctum, to a point.

To fix, settle, or agree upon a precise point of time or place. Generally

To fix, settle, or establish; to provide or furnish.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, which declares his dignity,
And the regard of Heaven on all his ways;
While other animals inactive range,
And of their doings God takes no account.

This deriues me to intreate you,
That presently you take your way for home,
And rather muse then aske vhy I intreate you,
For my respects are better than they seeme,
And my appointments haue in them a neede,
Greater than shewes it selfe at the first view.

Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well, Act ii. sc. 5.

God desires, that in his church, knowledge and piety, peace and charity, and good order should grow and flourish; to which purposes he hath appointed teachers to instruct, and governors to watch over his people.

Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 41.

He [Rouvigny] had the appointments of an Ambassador,

but would not take the character, that he might not have a
chapel, and mass said in it.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1674.

Low at his feet, in pomp display'd,
The world's collected wealth was laid;
Where bags of mammon, pil'd around,
And chests on chests, o'erwhelm the ground,
With bills, bonds, parchments, the appointers
Of doweries, settlements, and jointures.

APPORTION. } Fr. Apportioner; from APPORTIONATENESS. the Lat. ad and portio, (quasi partio, says Vossius,) from Pars, a part or share.

1 To part, to share; to divide into portions, to The words which St. Paul spake with reference to the allot the portion, part or share. Jews in particular, are justly applicable to the present state of mankind in general, there is none righteous.

Mason. On Self Knowledge. Whoever discharges the duty thus, with a view to Scripture which is the rule in this case, and to reason, which is the applier of this rule in all cases,-need not fear he will have what the prophet calls, rejoicing in himself." Sterne, Ser. 14.

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Brooke. The Temple of Hymen.

A foreign minister should be a most exact economist; an expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary; but, on the other hand, debt is inevitable ruin to him. Chesterfield. Maxims.

Bp. Hall. Satan's Fiery Darts quenched. And often, comming from schoole, when I mette her, shee would appose mee touching my learning and lesson, and falling from grammar to logicke, wherein she had some

Id. Paradise Lost, b. iv. knowledge, would subtilly conclude an argument with me.

Stow. Chronicle, an. 1043. Atrides to his tent Invited all the Peeres of Greece; and food sufficient Apposde before them: and the peeres apposde their hands to it. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. ix. Then he appos'd to them, his last-left roste; And in a wicker basket, bread engroste.-Id. Odys. b. xvi. Neither was Perkin for his part wanting to himselfe, either in gracious and princely behauiour, or in readie and apposite answeres.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 120.

A man cannot do all the particulars of repentance for every sin; but out of the general hatred of sin picks out some special instances, and apportions them to his special sins; as to acts of uncleanness he opposes acts of severity, to intemperance he opposes fasting.

Bp. Taylor. Of Repentance, c. 3. s. 6. God having placed us in our station, he having apportioned to us our task, we being in transaction of our business his servants, we do owe to him that necessary property of good servants, without which fidelity cannot subsist. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 20.

There is not a surer evidence and criterion, by which to discern the great excellency of moderation in that book, and so the apportionateness of it [the English Liturgy], to the end to which it was designed, than the experience of these so contrary fates which it hath constantly undergone, betwixt the persecutors on both extream parts.

Hammond. Pref. to View of the New Directory.

APPO'SE, or Skinner and Junius think APO'SE. Appose is used for Oppose. A'PPOSITE. As the Fr. Apposer, it is A'PPOSITELY. from the Lat. Appositum, part. A'PPOSITENESS. past of Apposere, to put or APPOSITION. place to, (ad and possere,) to APPO'SITIVE. put or place near to; to put to, sc. a question; an interrogatory to; to question, to interrogate; to examine; to put to, sc. to a trial, to a difficulty, to a task; to try, to task. We still use the expression, to be put to it. Apposite-put or placed near to, adapted, fitted, suited, appropriate, pertinent. Apposition in grammar. See HYPHEN.

May I not axe a libel, sire Sompnour,
And answere ther by my procuratour,
To swiche thing as men wold apposen me?

Chaucer. The Freres Tale, v. 7179
What ben the two, tell on quod hee?
My father this is one, that shee
Commandeth me my mouthe to close,
And that I shulde hir nought appose
In loue.
Gower. Con. A. b. i.

One of the Clerke's answered: Syr, he said right now, that this certification that came to you fro Shrewisbery is untrewly forged against hym; therefore, syr, appose you hym now here in all the pointis which ar certified ageinst hym, and so we shall heare of his owne mouthe his answers, and witnesse them.'-State Trials. Trial of Thorpe.

Whan Nicholas Clifforde sawe himselfe so sore aposed, he was shamfast, bycause of the that were there prent and herde the mater.-Berners. Froissart. Chron. c. 373.

Do not thy very Mahumetan vassals tell thee, that the same power, which made man, can as well restore him? And canst thou be other than apposed with the question of that Jew, who asked, whether it were more possible to make a man's body of water or of earth? All things are alike easie to an infinite power.

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