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 A P O ( 339 ) A P P the Romanifts, it fignifies a man who, without a legal let fly from the top of the building, and mounting ins difpenfation, forfakes a religious order of which,he the air with a firebrand, was fuppofed to convey the foul of the deceafed to heaven; and thenceforward he had made profeffion. Hence, APOSTATA capiendo, in the Engliftr law, a writ that was ranked among the gods. formerly lay agarnft a perfon, who having entered into APOTOME, in geometry, the difference between two fome order of religion, broke out again, and wandered incommenfurable lines. Apotome, in mufic, the difference between a greater . up and down the country. A POSTERIORI, or demonftration a pojleriori. See and lefler femi-tone, expreffed by the ratio 128: 125. APOZEM, in medicine, the fame with decodtion. See Demonstration. APOSTHUME, or Apostem, the fame with abfeefs. Decoction. APPARATUS,, a term ufed to denote a complete fet of See Abscess,. ; APOSTIL, in matters of literature, the fame with a inftruments, or other utenfils, belonging to any artift or machine r thus we fay a furgeon’s apparatus. marginal note. APOSTLE properly fignifies a meflenger or perfon fent APPARENT, in a general fenfe, fomething that is viby another upon fome bufinefs ; and hence, by way of fible to the eyes, or obvious to the underftahding. eminence, denotes one of the twelve ..difciples com- Apparent, among mathematicians and aftronomers, denotes things as they appear to us, in contradiftindlion inillioned by Jefus Chrift to preach the gofpel. The apoftles are ufually reprefented with their re- from real or true: thus we fay, the apparent diameter, fpeftive badges: Thus Peter is painted with the keys ; diftance, magnitude, place, figure, he. of bodies. Paul, with a fword; Andrew, with a crofs; James Apparent. in, Scots law, the perfon entitled to the greater, with a pilgrim’s ftaff; James the lefs, with fucceed to the eftate of a defundf, fiefore he is adlually a fuller’s pole; John, with a cup and winged ferpent entered. See Scots Law, title, Succejfion in heriflying out of it; Bartholomew, with a knife; Philip, table rights. with a long Raff,, .the upper end of which is formed APPARITION, in a general fenfe, denotes fimply the into a crofs ; Thomas, with a lance ; Matthew, with appearance of a thing. In a more limited fenfe, it is a hatchet; Matthias, with a battle-axe; Simon, with ufed for a fpedixe or ghoft. a faw ; and Jude, with a club. APPARITOR, among the Romans, a general term tocomprehend all attendants of Judges and magiftrates APOSTLES.trrmk See Creed. appointed to receive and execute their orders. ApApostles ointment. See Ointment. APOSTOLICI, an early fed of Chriltians, who pre- paritor, in England, is a meffenger that ferves the tended to lead their lives in imitation of the apoftles. procefs of a fpiritual court, or a beadle in an univerfity who carries the mace. They condemned marriage. APOSTROPHE, in rhetoric,' a figure by which the o- APPARURA, among, old law-writers, fignifies furnirator, in a vehement commotion, turns himfelf on all ture or tackle, particularly that belonging to a plough. fides, and applies to the living and dead, to angels and APPAUMEE, in heraldry, denotes-one hand extended to men, to rocks, groves, ebc. Thus Adam, in Mil- with the full palm appearing, and the thumb and finton’s Paradife Loft, ger£ at full length. 0 woods, 0 fountains, hillocks, dales, and bowers. APPEAL, in law, the'removal of a caufe from an inWith other echo, r&c. ferior to a fuperior court or judge, when a perfon Apostrophe, in gramrttar, the contraftion of a word thinks himfelf aggrieved by the fentence of the inferiby the ufe of a comma; as call'd for called, tho' for or judge. Appeals lie from all the ordinary courts of though. juftice to the Houfe of Lords. In ecclefiaftical canfes,. APOTACTITES, in church-hiftory, a name given to if an appeal is brought before a bithop, it may be rethe Apoftolici, from the fhew they made of renouncing, moved to the archbilhop; if before an archdeacon, to the world more than other men. See Apostolici. the court of arches, and thence to the archbilhop; and APOTHECARY, onewbopradifestheartof pharmacy. from the archbilhop’s court, to the king in chancery. APOTHEOSIS, in antiquity, a ceremony by which the Appeal of snaim, % the accufing one. that has maimed ancient Romans complimented their emperors and-great another.. men, after their death, with a place among the gods. in a general fenfe, the exterior furIt is deferibed as follows. After the body of the de- APPEARANCE, face of a thing, or-that which immediately ftrikes the ocafed had been burnt with the ufual folemnities-, an fenfes. image of wax, exadly refembling him, was placed on in law, fignifies a defendant’s filing an ivory couch, where it lay for feven days, attended by APPEARANCE, common or fpecial bail, on any procefs iffued out of a the fenate and ladies of the high eft quality in mourn- court of judicature. ing ; and then the young ftnators and knights bore the APPELLANT, in a general fenfe, one who appeals. See bed of ftate through the via facra to the old for-um, Appeal. and from thence to the. campus martius. where it was in church-hiftory, an appellation given depofited upon an edifice built in form of a pyramid. APPELLANTS, fuch of the catholic clergy, as appeal from the conThe bed being thus placed amidft a quantity of fpices toftitution unigenitus, to a general council. and other combuftibles,. and the knights having made Words and. names are either coma folemn proceffion round the pile, the new emperor, APPELLATIVE. mon or proper. Common names are fuch as llapd for with a torch in his hand, let fire to it, wbilft ah eagle. . univerfal ideas,_or a whole rank of beings, whether geneiaii