English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Apportionateness
(n.)
The quality of being apportioned or in
proportion.
Apportioned
(imp. & p. p.)
of Apportion
Apportioner
(n.)
One who apportions.
Apportioning
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Apportion
Apportionment
(n.)
The act of apportioning; a dividing into just
proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment,
to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or
property.
Appose
(v. t.)
To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See
Pose.
Appose
(v. t.)
To place in juxtaposition or proximity.
Appose
(v. t.)
To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing
to another).
Apposed
(a.)
Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles
of a bird's beak.
Apposer
(n.)
An examiner; one whose business is to put questions.
Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the
sheriffs' accounts.
Apposite
(a.)
Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant;
pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case.
Apposition
(n.)
The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same
case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the
orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
Apposition
(n.)
The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by
side; also, the condition of being so placed.
Apposition
(n.)
The act of adding; application; accretion.
Appositional
(a.)
Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition
syntactically.
Appositive
(n.)
A noun in apposition.
Appositive
(a.)
Of or relating to apposition; in apposition.
Appraisable
(a.)
Capable of being appraised.
Appraisal
(n.)
A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.
Appraise
(v. t.)
To praise; to commend.