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fore, by purchafe of part, it is extincb in the whole, and 
cannot be apportioned. Lit. 222. But if a man, which 
hath a rent fervice, purchafe parcel of the land out of 
which the rent is itfuing, this fliall not extinguifh all, but 
only the parcel. Fora rent-fervice in fuch cafe may be 
apportioned according to the value of the land. Id. But 
if one holdeth his land of his lord by the fervice to render 
to his lord yearly at fuch a feaft a horfe, a fpear, a rofe, 
and fuch like ; if in this cafe the lord purchafe parcel ot 
the land, fuch fervice is taken away, becaufe fuch fer¬ 
vice cannot be fevered nor apportioned. Id. If the tenant 
holdeth by fealty, and a bufliel of wheat, or a pound ot 
cummin, or of pepper, or fuch like, and the lord pur- 
chafes par; of the land, there fhall be an apportionment, 
as well as if the rent were in money ; and yet, if the 
rent were by one grain of wheat, or one feed of cummin, 
or one pepper corn ; by the purchafe of part, the whole 
(hall be extind. 1 Inf. 149. But if an entire fervice be 
ior the public good, as caftle-guard, cornage, and the like, 
or if it be for defence of the realm, or to repair a bridge 
or a way, or to keep a beacon, or for advancement of 
juflice and peace, as to attend the fheriff' in the execution 
of procefs; though the lord purchafe part, the fervice 
remains. Id. 
If a man hath common of pa flu re without number in 
twenty acres of land, and ten of thofe acres defeend to 
another perfon, the common without number is intire and 
uncertain, and cannot be apportioned, but fliall remain. 
But if i; had been a common certain (as for ten beads), 
in that cafe the common fhould be apportioned. And 
fo it is of common of eflovers, turbary, filhery, and the 
like. Id. But apportionment of rent or common isufually 
fettled by covenant or fpecial agreement. 
APPOR'TUM, [ apport r Fr.] fignifies proparly the 
revenue or profit which a thing brings in to the owner. 
It was commonly ufed for a corody or penflon. It was 
alfo applied to the payment made by the alien priories 
here in England to the fuperior houfe abroad ; or fome- 
times it was what remained over and above the fuftenance 
of fuch alien priory. 
APPO'S AI. of (lie riffs, is the charging them with money 
received upon their account in the exchequer. 
To AP'POSE, v. a. \_appono, Lat.] Ta put queflions to. 
This word is not now in ufe, except that, in fome fchools, 
to put grammatical queflions to a boy is called to pofe him ; 
and we now wit pofe for puzzle. A Latinifm. To apply 
to.—By malignant putrid vapours, the nutriment is ren¬ 
dered unapt of being appofed to the parts. Harvey. 
APPO'SER, f. an examiner. In the court of exche¬ 
quer, there is an officer called the foreign appofer. In the 
office of confirmation,, in the firft liturgy of Edward VI. 
the rubric directs the bilhop, or fuch as he fhall appoint, 
to appofe a child ; and a bilhop’s examining chaplain was 
anciently called his pofer. 
AP'POSITE, adj. \_appofitus, Lat.] Proper; fit; well 
adapted to time, place, or circuinftances.—The duke’s de¬ 
livery of his mind was not fo fliarp, as folid and grave, 
and appofite to the times and occafions. Wotton. 
AP'POSITELY, adv. Properly; fitly; fuitably.— 
When we come into a government, and fee this place of 
honour allotted to a murderer, another filled with an a- 
theifl or blafphemer, may we not appofitely and properly 
aik, Whether there be any virtue, fobriety, or religion, 
among fuch a people ? South. 
AP'POSITENESS, f. Fitnefs; propriety; fuitablenefs. 
—Judgment is either concerning things to be known, or 
of things done, of their congruity, fitnefs, rightnefs, ap- 
foftenefs. Hale. 
APPOSI'TION, f. [appofitio , Lat.] The addition of 
new matter, fo as that it may touch the firft mafs.—U- 
rine, infpeifted with a microfcope, will difeover a black 
fand ; wherever this fand flicks, it grows ftill bigger, by 
the appofiion of new matter. Arbthunot. In grammar, the 
putting of two nouns in the fame cafe ; as Liber Sufanna 
vialris, the book of his mother Sufan, 
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To APPRA'ISE, v. a. [ apprecier , Fr.] To fet a price 
upon any thing, in order to (ale. 
APPRAISER, f A perfon appointed to feta price up. 
on things to be fold. They are ufually called [worn ap- 
piafers, from their taking an oath to do juflice between 
party and party. 
APPRAISE'MENT, in law, fee Inventory. 
To APPREHEND', v. a. [apprehendo, Lat.] To take 
hold of. To lay hold on.—There is nothing but hath 
a double handle, or at leaft we have two hands to appre¬ 
hend it. Taylor. To feize in order for trial or punifli- 
ment.—It was the rabble, of which no body was named ; 
and not one apprehended. Clarendon. To conceive by the 
mind.—The Firft Being is invifible and incorruptible, and 
can only be apprehended by our minds. Stillingfleet. To 
think on with terror ; to fear.—From my grandfather’s, 
death T had reafon to apprehend the (tone ; and from my 
father’s life, the gout. Temple. 
APPREHEND'ER, f Conceiver ; thinker.—Grofs ap~ 
prehenders may not think it any more ftrange, than that a 
bullet fhould be moved by the rarefied fire. Glanville. 
APPREHEN'SIBLE, adj. That which may be ap¬ 
prehended, or conceived.—The north and fouthern poles- 
are incommunicable and fixed points, whereof the one is- 
not apprehcnjible in the other. Brown. 
APPREHEN'SION,/! [ apprenjio , Lat.] The mere con¬ 
templation of things, without affirming or denying any 
thing concerning them. So we think of a horfe, high, 
fvvift, animal, time, matter, mind, death, &c.—Simple- 
apprehenfon denotes no more than the foul’s naked intel¬ 
lection of an objebt, without either compolition or deduc¬ 
tion. Glanville. Opinion ; fentiments ; concellion.—To be 
falfe, and to be thought falfe, is all one in refpeit of 
men who act not according to truth, but apprehenfon, 
South. The faculty by which we conceive new ideas, or 
power of conceiving them : 
I nam’d them as they pafs’d,.and underflood 
Their nature, with Rich knowledge God endu’d 
My fudden apprehenfon. Milton. 
Fear.—After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius 
was in no fntiail apprehenfon for his own life. Addifon i 
Suspicion of fomething to happen, or be done.—That he 
might take away the apprehenfon , that he meant Riddeniy 
to depart, he lent out orders, which he was Rire would 
come into the enemies hands, to two or three villages, 
that they (bould fend portions of corn into Baflnghouie, 
Clarendon. Seizure : 
See that he be convey’d unto the Tower : 
And go we brothers to the man that took him,. 
To queftion of his apprehenfon. Shakefpeare. 
The power of feizing, catching, or holding.—A lobfter 
hath the chely or great claw of one (ide longer than the 
other, but this is not their leg, but a part of apprehenfon. 
whereby they feize upon their prey. Brown. 
Apprehension, is painted as a young, fprightly, andi 
aftive, damfel, clad in white, and in a iiftening pofture, 
holding in one hand a camelion, and in the other a look- 
ing-glafs. Youth denotes her aptnefs to apprehend and 
learn ; in white becaufe it is the ground of all colour; on 
tip-toe (hews the readinefs (he is in to apprehend, learn, 
and underftand ; the glafs, becaufe (he imprints on herfelf, 
and makes all (he hears and fees her own. 
APPREHEN'SIVE, adj. Quick to underfland.— Iff 
confcience be naturally apprekevfve and fagacious, cer¬ 
tainly we flioiild truft and rely upon the reports of it. 
South. Fearful.—The inhabitants of this country, when 
I pa-fled through it, were extremely apprchenfv'e of feeing 
it the feat of war. Addifon. Perceptive feeling: 
Thoughts, my tormentors, arm’d with deadly flings, 
Mangle my apprehenfve tend’reft parts. Milton ... 
APPREHEN'SIVELY, adv. In an a pp re hen five man¬ 
ner,. 
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