apportionate 
apportionatet (a-por'shon-at), c. t. [< ML. 
ap]iortionatus, pp. of iipportioiKirc : see appor- 
tion.] To apportion. 
apportionatenesst (a-por'shgn-at-nes), n. [< 
api>orti<ttite, a., + -ness.] The state or quality 
of being adapted; just proportion. 
The apportionaleness of it to the end for which it was 
designed. Hammond, Pref. to View of New Directory. 
apportioner (a-por'shon-er), n. One who ap- 
portions. 
apportionment (a-por'shon-ment), . [< ap- 
portion + -meat; after F. appor'tionnemcnt, ML. 
apportionamentum.] 1. The act of apportion- 
ing; a dividing into portions or shares; a di- 
viding and assigning of a just and equitable 
portion to each person interested or entitled to 
participate in any claim, right, property, or 
charge. 2. In the United States : (a) The dis- 
tribution ~ f *- i! -'- "--*-*' " 
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appreciate 
The common church office was us'd forthe King without OF. preis, prix), price : .see price and urnise and 
naming the person, with some other, apponte to the neces- nf _ '.;'% A m-UEA i 1 1 ',.". 
sity and circumstances of the time. 
JSvelyu, Diary, June, Whitsunday, 1693. 
What influence, I say, would these prayers have, were 
they delivered with a due emphasis, and apposite rising 
and variation of voice ? Steele, .Spectator, No. 147. 
3f. Apt ; ready in speech or answer : said of 
persons. 
appositely (ap'o-zit-li), adv. In an apposite 
manner; suitably; fitly; appropriately; perti- 
nently. 
The state or 
of being apposite; fitness; propriety; 
suitableness. 
A knowledge of the primitive sense of a word very often 
enables us to discover a force and fitness in its modern 
applications which we had never suspected before, and 
accordingly to employ it with greater propriety and appo- 
siteness. G. P. Marsh, Lectures on Eng. Lang., p. 106. 
. 
of representation in the federal House apposition (ap-o-zish'on), n. [=F. apposition= 
of Representatives, and in the houses of the dif - P r - appozicio = Sp. aposicion = Pg. apposicao = 
f erent State legislatures. In the former case a fresh 
apportionment is made by Congress every ten years, short- 
ly after the completion of the decennial census returns, and 
in the latter after stated enumerations made at different 
dates in different States, or after the federal census. In 
It. apposizione,<. LL. appositio(n-), adpositio(n-), 
a placing by or near, setting before, application, 
< L. apponere, pp. appositus: see oppose 1 , ap- 
posite.] 1. The act of adding to or together; 
cf. apprize 2 and appreciate.'] If. To value; 
prize. 
Hur enparel was apraymt with pryuces of myjte. 
Alt! urn iif Arlli., st. 29. 
2. To value in current money; officially set a 
price upon ; estimate the value of : used espe- 
cially of the action of a person or persons ap- 
pointed for the purpose, under direction of law 
or by agreement of persons interested: as, to 
appraise the goods and estate of a deceased per- 
son, or goods taken under a distress for rent. 
[See note under appraiser.] 3. To estimate 
generally, in regard to quality, service, size, 
weight, etc. 
Greek and Latin literature we shall examine only for the 
sake of appraising or deducing the sort of ideas which 
they had upon the subject of style. De Quincey, Style, iii. 
To get at the full worth of Emerson, ... we must ap- 
praise him for his new and fundamental quality of genius, 
not for his mere literary accomplishments, great as these 
were. The Century, XXVII. 927. 
The sickly babe, . . . 
Whom Enoch took, and handled all his limbs, 
Appraised his weight, and fondled father-like. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
umvuv oKitvn, ur (iitui Liie icueiiii census, ill - tj. 1 i 1 j. 1 i 
the federal apportionment, Congress determines the pro- a setting to ; application ; a placing together ; appraisement (a-rjraz'mentl 
DOrtion Of ranrMBIltatlvAfl In nrtnulntmn /Vino tn 1 m *><; lllYtfl.nnsit.mil fr . n mi V " *, , ' . '> 
portion of representatives to population (one to 154,325 
of the total population of the United States under the cen- 
sus of 1880, or 32.i in all), and the State legislatures fix the 
boundaries of the elective districts accordingly. (The prin- 
ciple of legislative apportionment according to population 
has been more recently adopted in the other American 
and most European states, though in some it is not yet 
very strictly applied.] (ft) The allotment of direct 
taxes on the basis of population : a Congression- 
al power rarely exercised. 
apposable (a-po'za-bl), a. [< oppose 1 + -able.] 
Capable of being apposed or brought together. 
appose 1 (a-poz'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. apposed, 
ppr. opposing. [< F. apposer, to lay, put, or add 
to, destinate, appoint, repr. L. apponere, ad- 
ponere, pp. appositus, adpositus (cf. apposite), 
put or lay at, near, or by, apply to, add, < ad, 
to, + poiiere, pp. positus, put, place, confused 
juxtaposition. 
The apposition of new matter. 
Arbuthnot, Choice of Aliments. 
Placing in apposition the two ends of a divided nerve 
does not re-establish nervous communication. 
U. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., 25. 
2. In gram. : (a) The relation to a noun (or 
-ment.] 1. The act of setting a value upon, un- 
der some authority or appointment; appraisal. 
It generally implies resort to the judgment of a 
disinterested person. 2. The rate at which a 
thing is valued ; the value fixed, or valuation ; 
estimation generally. 
pronoun) of another noun, or in some cases appraiser (a-pra'zer), n. One who appraises, 
of an adjective or a clause, that is added to it 
by way of explanation or characterization. 
or estimates worth of any kind, intellectual, 
moral, or material ; specifically, a person li- 
- r L ' -7 CC' _f*"J -"J f""7 fj*iv\j\*, ^VAAAIAO^JVA n lfuallljlll UMUOV. A11IAB, Alley sang l^illllS, l/Jt'rtf alHl 
in ML. and Rom. with pausare, F. poser, etc.: yd "} "Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again." Eare- 
Thus, " Cicero, the famous orator, lived in the first century censed and sworn to estimate and fix* the value 
before Christ"; " On him, their second Providence thev nf trnnrla r.i- ,.^i.,i,, 
T T~ !..' , n,-* j:..*t i-i. ^cT IS or estate. [Appraise, appraiser, appraise- 
ment, are now generally used, instead at apprize, apprizer 
apprutmmt, although the latter were formerly used by 
good English authors, as Lord Bacon and Bishop HaU and 
r attributive , are sti11 fre .<I uentl y sed in the United States.) 
way ""substitute for apprecationt (ap-re-ka'shon), . [< L. as if 
ing Darius, great and apprecatio(n-), < apprecari, adprec 
, 
hung." In languages that distinguish cases, the noun in 
apposition is in the same case as the word to which it is 
apposed. The same term is also used of an adjective that 
stands to the noun for pronoun) to which it refers in a 
less close relation than the propel 
added rather parenthetically, or by ' 
a qualifying clause. Thus, "Theysar 
see pose z , and cf. compose, depose, expose, im- 
pose, propose, repose.] 1. To put or apply 
(one thing) to or near to (another). 
Atrides . . . food sufficient 
Appos'd before them, and the peers appos'd their hands 
to it. Chapman, Iliad, ix. 45. 
His power having wrought 
The king already to appose his hand. 
Chapman and Shirley, Chabot, Admiral of France, i. 
2. To 
other ; 
tion. 
See you how the people stand ill heaps, 
Each man sad looking on his appos'd object? 
Dekker and Webster (?), Sir Thomas Wyat, p. 37. 
ly, it is applied to a clause, whether substantive or adjec- 
tive, that qualifies a noun (or pronoun) in an equivalent 
manner. Compare attributive and predicative. (6) The t"V c * "> icl 
relation of two or more nouns (or a noun and temaln ?> P- 4 4. 
pronoun) in the same construction, under the 
above conditions. Knights Templars, lords justices, 
Paul the apostle-, my son John's book (where son is also 
possessive, the sign of the possessive case being required 
only with the final term), are examples of nouns in appo- 
sition ; " / Jesus have sent mine angel " (Rev. xxii. 16) is 
an example of a pronoun and noun in apposition. 
, adprecari, pp. ap- 
precatus, pray to, adore, < ad, to, + precari, 
pray: see pray.] Invocation of blessing; 
grayer: as, ''fervent apprecations," Bp. Hall, 
by side ; arrange in juxtaposi- 
appose 2 t (a-poz'), v. t. 
OF. aposcr, apposer, 
phrase by way of explanation or illustration of 
another. N. E. D.- Growth by apposition, in bat., 
growth in thickness by the repeated formation of lamina;, 
as of cellulose in the thickening of cell-walls and of starch 
in the increase of starch-granules. 
.,...),[< L. as if 
'apprecatortus, < apprecari: see apprecation.] 
Of the nature of or containing a prayer. 
Not so much apprecatory as declaratory. 
Bp. HaU, Cases of Conscience, iii. 9. 
>reciable (a-pre'shi-a-bl), a. [= F. apprecia- 
. t. [< ME. apposen, aposen, appositional (ap-p-zish'on-al), a. [< appositio 
, with unaccented prefix a- T -a/.] 1. Pertaining to apposition, especiall 
ion 
, - . . , especially 
foro-, prop. ME. oposen, opposen, < OF. opposer; grammatical apposition. 2. In bot., lying to- 
mated, or perceived ; neither too small nor too 
great to be capable of estimation or recogni- 
tion; perceptible. 
A twelfth part of the labour of making a plough is an 
appreciable quantity. j. s. Mill. 
An odour which has no appreciable effect on the con- 
sciousness of a man has a very marked effect on the con- 
,. ^ . . , j- 7 -ff 7 "ff^wi f C3 ff " nrt j.i* WVWf AT JUfC U\J~ . 
ME. also by apheresis posen, mod. E. pose 3 : see gether and partly uniting so as to appear like Sclou8ne88 a d 8- H Spencer, Prin. of PsychoL, 79. 
oppose and pose 3 , which are now discriminated, a compound branch : applied to the branches appreciably (a-pre'shi-a-bli), adv. To a degree 
Appose*, though orig. a mere variation of oppose, of algas. 
, . 
that may be appreciated or estimated ; percep- 
ifference that may be remarked; 
, he is appreciably better. 
in discussion; bring objections or difficulties 
before one to be answered; examine; ques- 
tion; pose; puzzle. 
The prest and Perkyn apposed eyther other, 
And I thorw here wordes awoke, and waited aboute. 
Piers Plowman (B), vii. 138. 
Tho the people hyin apposed with a peny in the temple, 
Whether the! shulde therwith worschip the kyng Sesar. 
Piers Plowman (B), i. 47. 
Christ was found sitting in the temple, not to gaze on 
the outward glory of the house, ... but to hear and ap- 
pose the doctors. Bp. Hall, Contemplations 
-- . - ... ,, --- ,. . ~j, r approaching goods-engine seem appre- 
posttif, < L. as if *appositivus, < appositus see *** more numerous to the ear than those of a receding 
apposite.] I. a. 1. Apposite; applicable. 2. ^. !>, Prin. of Physics, p. 4is. 
Ingram., placed in apposition; standing over appreciant (a-pre'shi-ant), a. [< L. appre- 
against its subject in the construction of the tian (t-)s, ppr. of appreilare: see appreciate.] 
Appreciative. [Rare.] 
sentence. 
Appositive to the words going immediately before 
Knatchbull, Animad. in Libros Novi Test., p. 42. 
II. n. In gram., a word in apposition, 
appositorium (a-poz-i-to'ri-um), n.; pi. appo- 
sitoria (-a). [WL., < L. appositus, pp. of appo- 
nere, adponere, put near or by: see apposite.] A 
Such was the man whom Henry, of desert 
Appreciant alway, chose for highest trust. 
Southey, Ded. of Colloquies. 
appreciate (a-pre'shi-at), v. ; pret. and pp. ap- 
preciated, ppr. appreciating. [< L. appretiatus 
pp. of appretiare, value or estimate at a price 
conical'vessel of glass or earthenware" the nar- K ' a l^egiare apprezzare = Pg. aprecar= Sp. 
Specifically- 2. To examine (a sheriff) with row end of which is placed in a recei VP" w n Pr ." Wrectar = ^ -*--' '-* - <-- 
row end of which is placed in a receiver while 
the larger end receives the neck of a retort: 
used as a precaution against the breakage of 
the receiver by contact with the hot neck of a 
. * . . o 7 " retort during distillation. 
of the Court of Exchequer who examined the appostt, . *. [< F. apposter (Cotgrave), < It On 
shentTs accounts. The office was abolished in appostare, < LL. "appositare, < C. appositus : see 
r . T apposite.] To place or arrange with a purpose. 
[< L. appositus, adpo- N. E. D. 
reference to (his) accounts. See apposer. 
apposert (a-po'zer), n. [< appose^ + -erl.] An 
examiner; one whose duty it is to put ques- 
tions ; specifically, in England, a former officer 
1833. 
apposite (ap'o-zit), 
apprecier), < ad, to, + pretium, 
pnce : see price, and cf . appraise, apprize*.] I. 
trans. 1 . To value ; set a price or value on ; 
estimate the commercial worth of. 2. To es- 
teem duly; place a sufficiently high estimate 
u ; recognize the quality or worth of : as, his 
reat ability was not appreciated. 
The sectaries of a persecuted religion are seldom in a 
proper temper of mind calmly to investigate or candidly 
Gibbon. 
see appose 1 and position. 1 ] i. 
specifically, in bot., lying side 
tact, or partly u^tedrVe^e^OuUable"; To 2l?foJJl **?***' 
lit; appropriate; applicable; well adapted: and also simply praist 
lollowed by to : as, this a 
site to the case; "ready a 
Bacon, Hen. VII., p. 120. 
shall arrive, knowing well that it will not loiter. 
Emerson, Success. 
3. To be fully conscious of; be aware of; de- 
fniin -' Hf ' i a^dalTo'siipiyPa^^S.raf^se.app^'se' teot 5 P erceive th e nature or effect of. 
lollowed by to : as, this argument is very appo- < OF. "apreiser, apretier, aprisier avriser t>rice The eye a PP reciatea flner differences than art can expose. 
Bawn He^V. r T^ 1 " 1 OpMile answers '" lue '. Pse, ^ SI appretiare, value, estimate', 
appraise, purchase, < L. ad, ' 
Emerson, Works and Days. 
