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lion, and the perigee of the former has 



become the perihelion of the latter. 



ApoLLixVni.vxs, a Christian sect deriv- 

 ing their name from Apollinaris, bishop 

 of Laodicea, in the fourth century, who 

 maintained that the body of Christ was 

 endowed with a sensitive, but not with a 

 rational soul ; and that the divine nature 

 supplied the place of the intellectual 

 principle in man. 



APOLLO. In mythology, the god of medi- 

 cine, music, and the fine arts, of the 

 Greeks and Romans. Cicero mentions 

 four deities of this name; three of Grecian, 

 and one of Egyptian origin ; the last the 

 Great Apollo. The Apollo Heh-idere is 

 reckoned in the first class of ancient sta- 

 tues, and takes its name from having been 

 placed in the Belvidere of the Vatican, 

 at Rome, by Pope Julius II. The artist 

 is unknown. 



Ar'oLoGt:E,from <re, and i.ayts .speech. 



A relation of fictitious events, differing 

 from a parable in this ; the parable is 

 drawn from events among men, and is 

 therefore supposed probable ; the apologue 

 may relate the supposed actions of brutes 

 or inanimate things ; and therefore does 

 not require to be supported by probability ; 

 e. g. .^Esop's fables are in general apo- 

 logues. 



AP'OXEDRO'SIS, from et^rt, and nvgov, 

 a tendon. A tendinous expansion. 



APOPH'YGE, | from **/> and Qvytj, flight. 



APOPH'YGY, I In ar<hitecture, a concave 

 quadrantal moulding joining the shaft of 

 a column to the base, and connecting the 

 top of the shaft to the fillet under the 

 astragal ; the small facia, or bend, at the 

 top and base of the shaft of columns. 



APOPHYL'LITE, a mineral called also 

 Ichthyophthahnite, or fish-eya - stone. 

 Its constituents are silica and lime, with 

 a small proportion of potash. It occurs 

 both massive and crystallised in the 

 secondary trap rocks of the Hebrides and 

 Iceland. Name ctrro and <fvM*.ot, a leaf, 

 in reference to its^ tendency to exfoliate. 



APOPH'YSIS, avofvtrit, a process. 1. In 

 anatomy, a. process, projection, or protu- 

 berance of a bone, or other part, other- 

 wise called appendix, and differing from 

 epiphysis. - 2. In botany, a fleshy tuber- 

 cle under the basis of the pericarp of some 

 mosses. 



AP'OPLEXY, from itrorhrftet, a stroke 



A sudden deprivation of all the powers ol 



sense and voluntary motion, the action 



of the heart continuing, as well as the 



respiration, which is often accompanied 



with a stertorous sound. 



AP'OEOBRAH'CHIANS, ) Or. from 



AP'OROBRAJICBIA'TA, I I want, and/3{ay- 



jfiai, gills. A name applied by Latreille 



to an order of Arachnida. which are 



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lestitute of stisrmata on the surface of tlw 

 body. 



AP'OROX, ajra, a problem difficult to 

 resolve, and which has never been re- 

 solved, though not in itself impossible; 

 ;. g. the squaring of the circle. Among 

 he ancients, when a question was pro- 

 posed which the person to whom it was 

 >ut could not solve, the answer was 

 tTaiaj, I cannot see through it. The 

 erm aporon has also been used generally 

 or whatever was inexplicable. 



APOSE'PEDIX, at<ro, from, and a-'.Ti&'jiv , 

 >roduct of putrefaction. A peculiar crys- 

 allised substance obtained from putrid 

 :heese. 



AP'OSIOPE'SIS, a rhetorical figure, after- 

 wards called reticenry &nd suppression, sm& 

 which consists in the person really speak- 

 ng of a thing at the time that he makes 

 a show as if he would say nothing of it. 

 From TC<rtwretca, to be silent. 



A-POSTERIO'RI, posteriori, after. Argu- 

 ments a-posteriori are drawn from effects, 

 consequences, or facts,; in distinction to 

 arguments a-priori, which are from causes 

 previously known. 



APOS'TLE, otveo-ToXo;, a messenger 

 used to denote one of the disciples com 

 missioned by Jesus Christ to preach the 

 gospel. According to Theodcret, " those 

 who are now bishops were called apostles " 

 in the primitive ages. In the Greek liturgy, 

 the term apostle means the Epistles of St. 

 Paul, printed in the order in which they 

 are to be read in the churches through 

 the course of the year 



APOSTLES' CREED. A confession of faith , 

 formerly supposed to have been drawn up 

 by the Apostles themselves. 



APOSTOL'IC, in the priinithe church, was 

 an appellation given to all such churches 

 as were founded by the Apostles, and even 

 to the bishops of those churches, as the 

 reputed successors of the Apostles. These 

 were Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and 

 Jerusalem. 



APOSTOL'ICS, certain sects of Christiana 

 who pretended to imitate the practices of 

 the Apostles, abstaining from marriage, 

 wine, flesh, pecuniary reward, &c. 



APOSU'RA, a tribe of nocturnal lepido- 

 ptera, characterised by the absence of 

 feet on the anal segment of the body of 

 the larvae; whence the name, ,neg.,and 

 xns, a foot. 



APOTHE'CA, T6*;*r> a repository. In 

 ancient architecture, a storehouse for oil, 

 wine, &c. 



APOTHECARY, from ct!ro6r,r,, a reposi- 

 tory. On the Continent, and formerly 

 in this country, the functions of tte 

 apothecary consisted in compounding ac/i 

 dispensing the prescriptions of the pbj 

 siciau and surgeon; but now the tern 



