apparatus 
ments, utensils, appliances, or materials in- 
tended, adapted, and necessary for the accom- 
plishment of some purpose, such as mechani- 
cal work, experimenting, etc. : as, chemical, 
philosophical, or surgical apparatus. 
The whole military apparatus of the archduke was put 
in motion. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 17. 
Specifically (a) In plnjsiol., a. collection of organs which, 
though ililfering in structure, all minister to the same func- 
tion : us, tin' respiratory apparatus : the digestive appa- 
ratus, (b) A collection of materials for any literary work : 
as, critical apparatus for the study of the Greek text of the 
New Testament. Apparatus belli (Latin), materials of 
war; amimmitiim ; military stores. Apparatus SCUlp- 
toris (New Latin), the Sculptor's Workshop, a constella- 
tion situated in that region of the heavens which lies im- 
mediately to the east of the large star Fomalhaut, or a 
Piscis Australis. It barely rises above the horizon in the 
northern hemisphere. 
apparel (a-par'el), v. t. ; pret. and pp. appareled 
or apparelled, ppr. appareling or apparelling. 
[Early mod. E. also aparel, aparrell, etc., < ME. 
aparailen, apparailen, -aylen, -eilen, -eylen, etc., 
and by apheresis parailen, < OF. aparailler, 
apareiUer, F. appareiller, dress, prepare, = Pr. 
aparelhar = Sp. aparejar = Pg. apparelhar = It. 
apparecchiare, < L. as if *adpariculare, make 
equal or fit, < ad, to, + "pariculus ( > It. parecchio 
= Pg. pare/ho = Sp. parejo = Pr. parelh = F. 
pareil, equal, like), dim. of par, equal: see par.] 
If. To make ready; prepare; fit out; put in 
proper order. 
For ther he wolde hire weddying apparaile. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 2473. 
2. To dress or clothe; adorn or safcoff; deck 
with ornaments. 
Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live 
delicately, are in kings' courts. Luke vii. 25. 
It is no greater charity to clothe his body, than apparel 
the nakedness of his soul. 
Sir T. Browne, Eeligio Medici, ii. 8. 
She did apparel her apparel, and with the preciousness 
of her body made it most sumptuous. Sir P. Sidney. 
You may have trees apparelled with flowers by boring 
holes in them, putting into them earth, and setting seeds 
of violets. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 504. 
3. To furnish with external apparatus; equip: 
as, ships appareled for sea. 
apparel (a-par'el), n. [Early mod. E. also 
aparel, ap'ivrrel, etc., and parel, parrell, etc., < 
ME. aparel, apparail, apareil, and by apheresis 
parel, < OF. aparail, apareil, aparel, preparation, 
equipment, F. appareil, preparation, provision, 
= Pr. aparelh = Sp. aparejo = Pg. apparelho 
= It. apparecchio ; from the verb.] If. Prepa- 
ration ; the work of preparing or providing. 
2. Things prepared or provided ; articles or 
materials to be used for a given purpose ; ap- 
paratus; equipment. Specifically (at) The furni- 
ture, appendages, or attachments of a house. (6) Naut., 
the furnishings or equipment of a ship, as sails, rigging, 
anchors, guns, etc. 
The carpenters were building their magazines of oares, 
masts, c&c., for an hundred gallys and ships, which have all 
their apareil and furniture neere them. 
Evelyn, Diary, June, 1645. 
3. A person's outer clothing or vesture ; rai- 
ment ; external array ; hence, figuratively, as- 
pect; guise. 
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 
But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : 
For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 3. 
At publick devotion his resigned carriage made religion 
appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatter. 
4. Eccles., an ornament of the alb and amice, 
found as a simple fringe or colored stripe earlier 
than the tenth century, 
most extensively em- 
ployed and elaborate in 
workmanship during the 
thirteenth and fourteenth 
centuries, and still used 
in the form of pieces of 
lace sewed upon silk. The 
apparels of the alb are either 
oblong quadrangular patches 
on the wrists and on the skirt 
before and behind, or bands 
completely encircling the skirt 
and wrists. The apparel of the 
amice is on the outside part, 
which is turned down like a 
collar. It was often in orphrey- 
work adorned with precious 
stones so disposed as to form 
sacred emblems. = Svn. 3. Rai- 
ment, costume, attire, clothes, 
garb, habiliments. 
apparelmentt, . [< ME. apparatUement, apa- 
riii/tment, < OF. aparcilleinent = PT. aparell/aiiicii, 
aparellamen = OSp. iiparejamieiito = Pg. appa- 
relhamento = It. apparecchiamento : see apparel 
and -went] Equipment; clothing; adornment. 
Chaucer, Boethius. 
Part of the Apparel of the 
Alb of Becket, in the cathe- 
dral of Sens. France. (From 
Viollet-Ie-I)uc > s"Dict. du Mo- 
bilier fran9ais.") 
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apparencet, apparencyt (a-par'ens, -en-si), . 
[ME. appareiwe, apparent, apareiive, -aunce, 
also appareneic, < OF. uparcnce, uparance, F. 
appareiici' = Pr. apparenciu, n/xn'rittsa = Sp. 
aparienria = PS- appareiteia = It. appari'iima, < 
L. apparentia, appearance, in ML. also simnla- 
tion,<apparen(t-)s, apparent: see apparent. Cf. 
appearance.] 1. Preparation; making ready. 
2. Superficial seeming ; external semblance; 
appearance: as, " vain and gaudy apparencies," 
Jip. Wren. 
Outward apparance is no authentic instance of the in- 
ward desire's. Middleton, Family of Love, i. 2. 
3. The quality of being apparent to the senses 
or to the mind; apparentness. 4. The posi- 
tion of being an heir apparent. N. E. D. 
apparent (a-par'ent), a. and n. [< ME. appa- 
rant, -aunt, aparant, also by apheresis parent, 
< OF. aparant, -ent, F. apparent = Pr. appa- 
rent = Sp. aparente = Pg. It. apparente, < L. 
apparen(t-)s, ppr. ot apparere, adparere, come in 
sight, appear : see appear and -anti.] I, a. 1. 
Exposed to the sense of sight ; open to view ; 
capable of being seen, or easily seen ; visible to 
the eye ; within the range of vision. 
By some apparent sign 
Let us have knowledge at the court of guard. 
SAat.,lHen. VI., ii. 1. 
As we rapidly approached the land the beauty of the 
scenery became more fully apparent. 
Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. ii. 
2. Capable of being clearly perceived or un- 
derstood ; obvious ; plain or clear ; evident : as, 
the wisdom of the Creator is apparent in his 
works. 
At that time Cicero had vehement suspicions of Caesar, 
but no apparent proof to convince him. North. 
3. Having the character of a mere seeming or 
appearance, in distinction from what is true or 
real : as, the apparent motion of the sun ; his 
anger was only apparent. 
For the powers of nature, notwithstanding their appa- 
rent magnitude, are limited and stationary. 
Buckle, Civilization, I. 46. 
Culture inverts the vulgar view of nature, and brings the 
mind to call that apparent which it uses to call real, and 
that real which it uses to call visionary. Emerson, Nature. 
4f. Probable ; likely : as, " the three apparent 
candidates," H. Walpole. Apparent day, the real 
or true solar day, as distinguished from the mean day. 
See day. Apparent declination, the declination of the 
apparent place of a star. Apparent diameter of a 
heavenly body, the angle which its diameter subtends 
at the eye, that is, the angle made by lines drawn from 
the extremities of its diameter to the eye. Apparent 
double point, in math., a point on a curve in space 
which appeai-s to be double to an eye placed at a given 
point. Apparent easement. See easement. Appa- 
rent or intentional ens. See ens. Apparent figure, 
the figure or shape under which an object appears when 
seen at a distance. Apparent horizon. Same as visible 
horizon (which see, under horizon). Apparent magni- 
tude. See magnitude. Apparent noon, the instant at 
which the center of the sun crosses the meridian. Ap- 
parent place Of a star, etc., the place on the celestial 
sphere where it would appear but for refraction ; some- 
times the place where it does appear. Apparent posi- 
tion, in optics, the position in which an object appears to 
be when seen through glass, water, or any other diffract- 
ing medium, as distinguished from its true position. See 
refraction. Apparent right ascension, the right as- 
cension of the apparent place of a star. Apparent time, 
the hour-angle of the sun. Heir apparent. See heir. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. Clear, distinct, manifest, patent, unmis- 
takable. 3. Ostensible. 
Il.t n. An heir apparent. 
K. Hen. Draw thy sword in right. . . . 
Prince. I'll draw it as apparent to the crown, 
And in that quarrel use it to the death. 
Shak., S Hen. VI., ii. 2. 
apparently (a-par'ent-li), adv. 1. Openly; 
evidently to tne senses or the intellect. 
I would not spare my brother in this case, 
If he should scorn me so apparently. 
Shak., C. of E., iv. 1. 
2. Seemingly ; in appearance, whether in real- 
ity or not ; as far as one can judge : as, he is 
apparently well ; only apparently friendly. 
The motions of a watch, apparently uncaused by any- 
thing external, seem spontaneous. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 65. 
apparentness (a-par'ent-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being apparent; plainness to the 
eye or to the mind ; visibleness ; obviousness. 
apparisht (a-par'ish), v. t. [Late ME. appa- 
rysshe, < OF. apariss-, stem of certain parts of 
aparir, aparer, < L. apparere, appear: see ap- 
pear.] To appear. Caxton, Golden Legend. 
(N. E. D.) 
apparition (ap-a-rish'on), re. [< F. apparition, 
< ML. apparitio(it-). an appearance, epiphany, 
also attendants, L. only in sense of attendance, 
attendants, < apparere, adparere, pp. apparatus, 
appeachment 
adparitus, appear, attend, wait upon, serve : see 
uppi-ar, apparent, and apparitor.] 1. The act 
of appearing or coming into sight ; appearance ; 
the state of being visible ; visibility. 
When the holy churchman join'd our hands, 
Our vows were real then ; the ceremony 
Was not in apparition, but in act. 
Ford, Perkin Warbeck, v. 3. 
The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. Prcscott. 
Louis XIV. appeared [at Cliambord] on several occa- 
sions, and the apparition was characteristically brilliant. 
//. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 39. 
2. That which appears or becomes visible ; an 
appearance, especially of a remarkable or phe- 
nomenal kind. 
Let us interrogate the great apparition that shines so 
peacefully around us. Emerson, Nature. 
Miss Edgeworth taught a contempt of falsehood, no 
less in its most graceful than in its meanest api>aritions. 
Mary. Fuller, Woman in 19th Cent., p. 131. 
Specifically 3. A ghostly appearance ; a spec- 
ter or phantom : no w the usual sense of the word. 
Tender minds should not receive early impressions of 
goblins, spectres, apparitions, wherewith maids fright 
them into compliance. Locke. 
4. In astron., the first appearance of a star or 
other luminary after having been obscured: 
opposed to occultatwn Circle of apparition, or 
of perpetual apparition, the bounding circle of that 
part of the heavens which is always visible ; that circle 
of declination which is tangent to the horizon. =Syn. 3. 
Specter, Phantom, etc. See ghost. 
apparitional (ap-a-rish'on-al), a. [< appari- 
tion + -al.] 1. Resembling an apparition ; hav- 
ing the nature of a phantom; spectral. 2. 
Capable of appearing; endowed with material- 
izing qualities Apparitional soul, a thin, unsub- 
stantial human image conceived, in certain phases of 
primitive thought, as the cause of life and mind, capable 
of quitting the body for a time or altogether, and so leav- 
ing it insensible or dead, and when thus absent from it 
appearing to other individuals asleep or awake. 
Closely allied ... to the primitive notion of the appa- 
ritional soul, is the belief in the soul's existence after 
death. Encyc. Brit., II. 55. 
That the apparitional human soul bears the likeness of 
its fleshly body, is the principle implicitly accepted by all 
who believe it really and objectively present in dream or 
vision. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 406. 
apparitor (a-par'i-tor), n. [L., a servant, esp. 
a public servant (li'ctor, scribe, military aide, 
priest, etc.), < apparere, adparere, attend, serve : 
see apparition.] 1. In Horn, antiq., any officer 
who attended magistrates and judges to execute 
their orders. 2. Any officer of a civil court, 
or his servant or attendant. 3. Any one who 
puts in an appearance ; an appearer. [Rare.] 
The Higher Court ... in which . . . every Human 
Soul is an apparitor. Carlisle, Past and Present, p. 211. 
4. Eccles., a messenger or an officer who serves 
the process of a spiritual court; the lowest 
officer of an ecclesiastical tribunal. 
He swallowed all the Roman hierarchy, from the pope 
to the apparitor. Ayli/e, Parergon. 
When my great-grandfather wished to read the Bible to 
his family, . . . one of the children stood at the door to give 
notice if he saw the apparitor coming, who was an officer 
of the spiritual court. Franklin, Autobiog. , pp. 8, 9. 
5. The beadle in a university, who carries the 
mace. 
appaumee (a-po-ma'), a. [F., < & (< L. ad, to) 
+ pamne, the palm of the hand : see palm.] In 
Tier. , open and extended so as to show 
the palm with thumb and fingers at 
full length : said of the human hand. 
Also spelled apaumee. 
v. t. See apay. 
ippi 
E. also apeacli, < ME. appechen, ape- 
chen (and by apheresis pechen, > mod. 
E. peach 2 , q. v. ), reduced from earlier empechen, 
whence the usual mod. form impeach, q. v. Cf . 
appair, impair.] 1. To impeach. 
He did, amongst many others, appeach Sir William Stan- 
ley, the lord chamberlain. Bacon, Hen. VII. 
Nor can'st, nor dar'st thou, traitor, on the plain 
Appeach my honour, or thine own maintain. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., 1. 300. 
2. To censure; reproach; accuse; give accu- 
satory evidence. 
And oft of error did himselfe appeach. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. xi. 40. 
appeachert (a-pe'cher), n. [< ME. apecliowre 
(Prompt. Parv.), < AF. enpechour, OF. empe- 
cheor: see appeach and -er.] An accuser. 
appeachmentt (a-pech'ment), n. [< appeach 
+ -ment. Cf. impeachment.] Accusation; im- 
peachment; charge. 
The duke's answers to his appeachments, in number thir- 
teen, I find very diligently and civilly couched. 
Sir H. Wotton. 
(t. v. . . 
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