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Apprehend (ăppr�hĕnd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Apprehended; p. pr. & vb. n. Apprehending.] [L. apprehendere; ad + prehendere to lay hold of, seize; prae before + -hendere (used only in comp.); akin to Gr. chandanein to hold, contain, and E. get: cf. F. appréhender. See , .] 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic]
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We have two hands to apprehend it. Jer. Taylor.
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2. Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
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3. To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
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This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. Fuller.
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The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.
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4. To know or learn with certainty. [Obs.]
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G. You are too much distrustful of my truth.
E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend
The means and manner how. Beau. & Fl.
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5. To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
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The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence. Macaulay.
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Syn. -- To catch; seize; arrest; detain; capture; conceive; understand; imagine; believe; fear; dread. -- To , . These words come into comparison as describing acts of the mind. Apprehend denotes the laying hold of a thing mentally, so as to understand it clearly, at least in part. Comprehend denotes the embracing or understanding it in all its compass and extent. We may apprehended many truths which we do not comprehend. The very idea of God supposes that he may be apprehended, though not comprehended, by rational beings. “We may apprehended much of Shakespeare's aim and intention in the character of Hamlet or King Lear; but few will claim that they have comprehended all that is embraced in these characters.” Trench.
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Apprehend, v. i. 1. To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
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2. To be apprehensive; to fear.
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It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. Rowe.
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Apprehender (�), n. One who apprehends.
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Apprehensibiity (�), n. The quality of being apprehensible. [R.] De Quincey.
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Apprehensible (�), a. [L. apprehensibilis. See .] Capable of being apprehended or conceived. “Apprehensible by faith.” Bp. Hall. -- Apprehensibly, adv.
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Apprehension (�), n. [L. apprehensio: cf. F. appréhension. See .] 1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.
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2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
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3. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
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Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.
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4. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
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☞ In this sense, the word often denotes a belief, founded on sufficient evidence to give preponderation to the mind, but insufficient to induce certainty; as, in our apprehension, the facts prove the issue.
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To false, and to be thought false, is all one in respect of men, who act not according to truth, but apprehension. South.
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5. The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
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6. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
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After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life. Addison.
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Syn. -- , . Apprehension springs from a sense of danger when somewhat remote, but approaching; alarm arises from danger when announced as near at hand. Apprehension is calmer and more permanent; alarm is more agitating and transient.
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Apprehensive (�), a. [Cf. F. appréhensif. See .] 1. Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.
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It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne.
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2. Knowing; conscious; cognizant. [R.]
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A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it. Jer. Taylor.
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3. Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
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Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. Sir W. Hamilton.
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4. Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.
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Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance. Tillotson.
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Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. Gladstone.
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5. Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [R.]
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Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings,
Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. Milton.
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Apprehensively, adv. In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.
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Apprehensiveness, n. The quality or state of being apprehensive.
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Apprentice (�), n. [OE. apprentice, prentice, OF. aprentis, nom. of aprentif, fr. apprendare to learn, L. apprendere, equiv. to apprehendere, to take hold of (by the mind), to comprehend. See , .] 1. One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
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2. One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

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3. (Old law) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. [Obs.] Blackstone.
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Apprentice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Apprenticed; p. pr. & vb. n. Apprenticing.] To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
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Apprenticeage, n. [F. apprentissage.] Apprenticeship. [Obs.]
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Apprenticehood, n. Apprenticeship. [Obs.]
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Apprenticeship, n. 1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.
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2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
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{ Appressed, Apprest }, a. [p. p. appress, which is not in use. See .] (Bot.) Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem. Gray.
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apprisal n. 1. informing by words.
Syn. -- telling, notifying, notification.
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Apprise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Apprised; p. pr. & vb. n. Apprising.] [F. appris, fem. apprise, p. p. apprendre to learn, to teach, to inform. Cf. , .] To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.
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Apprise, n. Notice; information. [Obs.] Gower.
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Apprizal, n. See .
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Apprize, v. t. [The same as , only more accommodated to the English form of the L. pretiare.] To appraise; to value; to appreciate.
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Apprizement, n. Appraisement.
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Apprizer, n. 1. An appraiser.
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2. (Scots Law) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott.
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Approach, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Approached; p. pr. & vb. n. Approaching.] [OE. approchen, aprochen, OF. approcher, LL. appropriare, fr. L. ad + propiare to draw near, prope near.] 1. To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
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Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city? 2 Sam. xi. 20.
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But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25.
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2. To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
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Approach, v. t. 1. To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. [Archaic] Boyle.
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2. To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood.
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He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. Temple.
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3. (Mil.) To take approaches to.
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Approach, n. [Cf. F. approche. See , v. i.] 1. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. “The approach of summer.” Horsley.
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A nearer approach to the human type. Owen.
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2. A access, or opportunity of drawing near.
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The approach to kings and principal persons. Bacon.
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3. pl. Movements to gain favor; advances.
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4. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. Macaulay.
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5. pl. (Fort.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.
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6. (Hort.) See .
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7. (Golf) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club.
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8. (Aviation) that part of a flight during which an airplane descends toward the landing strip.
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9. (Bowling) the steps taken by a bowler just before delivering the ball toward the pins.
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Approachability (�), n. The quality of being approachable; approachableness.
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Approachable (�), a. Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.
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Approachableness, n. The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
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Approacher (�), n. One who approaches.
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Approaching, n. (Hort.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.
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Approachless, a. Impossible to be approached.
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Approachment (�), n. [Cf. F. approachement.] Approach. [Archaic] Holland.
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Approbate (�), a. [L. approbatus, p. p. of approbare to approve.] Approved. [Obs.] Elyot.
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Approbate (�), v. t. To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.
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I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. Sir W. Hamilton.
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☞ This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep a public house. Pickering (1816).
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Approbation (�), n. [L. approbatio: cf. F. approbation. See to prove.] 1. Proof; attestation. [Obs.] Shak.
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2. The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation.
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Many . . . joined in a loud hum of approbation. Macaulay.
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The silent approbation of one's own breast. Melmoth.
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Animals . . . love approbation or praise. Darwin.
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3. Probation or novitiate. [Obs.]
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This day my sister should the cloister enter,
And there receive her approbation. Shak.
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Syn. -- Approval; liking; sanction; consent; concurrence. -- , . Approbation and approval have the same general meaning, assenting to or declaring as good, sanction, commendation; but approbation is stronger and more positive. “We may be anxious for the approbation of our friends; but we should be still more anxious for the approval of our own consciences.” “He who is desirous to obtain universal approbation will learn a good lesson from the fable of the old man and his ass.” “The work has been examined by several excellent judges, who have expressed their unqualified approval of its plan and execution.”
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Approbative (�), a. [Cf. F. approbatif.] Approving, or implying approbation. Milner.
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Approbativeness, n. 1. The quality of being approbative.
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2. (Phren.) Love of approbation.
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Approbator (�), n. [L.] One who approves. [R.]
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Approbatory (�), a. Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. Sheldon.
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Appromt (?; 215), v. t. [Pref. ad- + promt.] To quicken; to prompt. [Obs.]
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To appromt our invention. Bacon.
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Approof (�), n. [See , and .] 1. Trial; proof. [Archaic] Shak.
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2. Approval; commendation. Shak.
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Appropinquate (�), v. i. [L. appropinquatus, p. p. of appropinquare; ad + prope near.] To approach. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.
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Appropinquation (�), n. [L. appropinquatio.] A drawing nigh; approach. [R.] Bp. Hall.
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Appropinquity (�), n. [Pref. ad- + propinquity.] Nearness; propinquity. [R.] J. Gregory.
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Appropre (�), v. t. [OE. appropren, apropren, OF. approprier, fr. L. appropriare. See .] To appropriate. [Obs.] Fuller.
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Appropriable (�), a. [See .] Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use. Sir T. Browne.
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Appropriament (�), n. What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification. [Obs.]
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If you can neglect
Your own appropriaments. Ford.
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Appropriate (�), a. [L. appropriatus, p. p. of appropriare; ad + propriare to appropriate, fr. proprius one's own, proper. See .] Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
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In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus.
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Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet.
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It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.
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Appropriate (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appropriated (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Appropriating (�).] 1. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
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2. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
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3. To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic] Paley.
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4. (Eng. Eccl. Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. Blackstone.
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Appropriate (�), n. A property; attribute. [Obs.]
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appropriated adj. 1. 1 taken without permission or consent especially by public authority.
Syn. -- confiscate, confiscated, seized, taken over.
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Appropriately, adv. In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
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Appropriateness, n. The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
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Appropriation (�), n. [L. appropriatio: cf. F. appropriation.] 1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.
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2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
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The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay.
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3. (Law) (a) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. (b) The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter. Chitty.
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Appropriative (�), a. Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. -- Appropriativeness, n.
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Appropriator (�), n. 1. One who appropriates.
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2. (Law) A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
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Approvable (�), a. Worthy of being approved; meritorious. -- Approvableness, n.
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Approval (�), n. Approbation; sanction.
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A censor . . . without whose approval n� capital sentences are to be executed. Temple.
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Syn. -- See .
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Approvance (�), n. Approval. [Archaic] Thomson.
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Approve (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Approved (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Approving.] [OE. aproven, appreven, to prove, OF. aprover, F. approuver, to approve, fr. L. approbare; ad + probare to esteem as good, approve, prove. See , and cf. .] 1. To show to be real or true; to prove. [Obs.]
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Wouldst thou approve thy constancy? Approve
First thy obedience. Milton.
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2. To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
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Opportunities to approve . . . worth. Emerson.
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He had approved himself a great warrior. Macaulay.
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'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true. Byron.
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His account . . . approves him a man of thought. Parkman.
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3. To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.
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4. To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.
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5. To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
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The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God. Rogers.
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☞ This word, when it signifies to be pleased with, to think favorably (of), is often followed by of.
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They had not approved of the deposition of James. Macaulay.
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They approved of the political institutions. W. Black.
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