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Show A P vc APODI XIS, n. [ [awedafis.] Demonttra . +When a ¢yft rifes near the orifice of the artery Di& tion A ON. ) . /. [from &n?, from, an APOG veflel, which becomes exceffively expanded AP ‘tl; A'POGEE ym, the earth. A poin ‘hk APOGE UM Yin the heavens in whic Uiy the fun, or a planet, is at the greatef diftance pofible from the earth in it The ancient aftrowhole revolution l"‘l‘é nomers regardm the earth as the centr of the {yftem, chiefly regarded the apogzon and perigzon, which the moderns making the fun the centre, change fo the aphelion and perihelion. Chambers Thy fin is in his apegeon placed And when it moveth next, muft needs defcend Fairfax It is yet not agreed in what time, precifely the apogeum abfolveth one degree Brown's Vulgar Errours AroLoGE'TICAL. ] 2d).[from dworoyéw, t Aroroce'rick. § defend.] That whic is faid in defence of any thing or perfon I defign to publith an effay the greater part o which is apologetical, for one fort of chymifts. Boyle AroLoGE TICALLY. adv. [from apologetical.] In the way of defence or excufe Aro'LocisT. n f. [from To apologize. He that makes an apology ; a pleade in favour of another o Aro'LoG1zE. w. n [from apology. 1. To plead in favour of any perfon or thing hl"‘ et th It will be much more feafonable to reform tha apologize or rhetoricate; and therefore it import thofe, who dwell fecure, to look about them Decay of Picty 2. It has the particle for before the {ubje of apology I ought to apologize for my indifcretion in th whole undertaking. Wake's Preparation for Death The tranflator needs not apologize for his choic of this piece, which was made in his childhood Pope's Preface to Statiys A'POLOGUE. n. /. [dmorey®-.] Fable ; flor contrived to teach fome moral truth [f.'fl!l@‘l» angena o An apologue of AZfop is beyond a fyllogifm, an proverbs more powerful than demonftration Brown's Vulgar Errours Some men are remarked for pleafantnefs in raillery; others for apelogues and appofite divertin Locke ftories APO'LOGY Aoyfe. ». f [apolegia Lat émo Apology generall 1. Defence ; excufe fignifies rather excufe than vindication and tends rather to extenuat the fault than prove innocence. This is, how£ver, fometimes unregarded by writers In her face excuf Came prologue, and apology too promp Which with bland words at will the thus addrefs'd Milton z. It has for before the objeét of excufe It is not my intention to make an apology for m poem: fome will think it needs no excufe, an athers will receive none Dryden I fhall neither trouble the reader, nor myfelf with any apology for publithing of thefe fermons for if they be, in any meafure, truly ferviceable t the end for which they are defigned, I do not fe what apology is neceffary; and if they be not fo, am fure none can be fufficient Tillotfon APOMECO'METRY.7./. [and, from, u5x®~ diftance,and péleéw, to meafure.] The ar of meafuring things at a diftance. Dif APONEURO'SIS. n. /. [from &=, from ' and vedov, a nerve. An expanfion o a nerve into a membrane A it')s formed by the apomeurofis that runs over th A'roPLEXED. adj. [from apoplex.] Seize with an apopiexy Skarp's Surgery [ Lat. awépacis, a de Senfe, fure, you have Elfe could you not have motion: but fure that fenf Is apoplex'd Shakefpcar APO'PHASIS nying. n. / A figure in rhetorick, by whic the orator, {peaking ironically, feems t wave what he woul A BOPLEXY plainly infinnate ahich if I fhould, you notawithflandin could neither confute or fpeak againft them whic qualit th ha Apoplescy is a fudden abolition of all the fenfes o drawing away phlegm ArorPHLE'GMATISM. 7 /. [awd and PrZy-pa.] A medicine of which the intention is to draw phlegm from the blood And fo it is in apophlegmatifms and gargarifms that draw the rheum down by the palate Bacon AroruirEGeMA‘TIZANT. 7. f. [awd an @réype.] Any remedy which canfes a evacuation of ferous or mucous humou by the fioftrils, as particular kinds o fternutatories Quincy A'POPHTHEGM. 7. [. [&wépSeype.] A remarkable faying ; a valuable maxi uttered on fome {udden occafion W may magnify the apophtbegms replies of wifdom whereof man or repute are to be fee in Laertius and Lycofthenes. Brown's Pulg. Err I had 2 mind to collet and digeft fuch obfervations and apophthegms, as tend to the proof of tha great affertion, All is vanity Prior APO'PHYGE. n. /. [amopuyh, flight, o efcape.] Is, in architeture, that par of a column, where it begins to {prin out of its bafe; and was originally n more than the ring or ferrel, which anciently bound the extremities of woode pillars, to keep them from f{plitting and were afterwards imitated in fton work., We fometimes call it the {prin of the column APO'PHYSIS Chambers . f. [awipvoic.] The pro minent parts of fom bones the fam as procefs. It differs from an epiphyfis as 1t is a continuance of the bone itfelf ; whereas the latter is fomewhat ad hering to a bone, and of which it i not properly a part Quincy 1t is the apophyfis, or head, of the os tibiz, whic makes the knee Wifeman's Surgery Arorre'cTICAL. adj. [fro Relating to an apoplexy apoplexy. We meet with the fame complaints of gravit in living bodies, when the faculty locomotive feem abolifhed; as may be obferved in fupporting perfon inebriated, apoplefical, or in lipothymies and fwoonings Brown's Vulgar Errours A fud is generally a repletion, and indicate evacuation, joined with ftimuli. Quincy Smith's Rhbetorick ‘GMATICK. #. /o [amo and Qaéy Tha pe. [émtmrngic. den deprivation of all internal and external {enfation, and of all motion, unlefs of the heart and thorax. The cauf as, Neither «will I mention thofe things AroruL .. _ external and internal, and of ail voluntary motion by the ftoppage of the flux and reflux of the anima fpirits through the nerves deftined for thofe motions Arbuthnot on Dict Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy, mulled, deaf fleepy, infenfible Shakefpeare's Coriolanis A fever may take away my reafon, or memory and an apoplexy leave neither fenfe nor underftanding Locke APO'RIA. n. f. [&mogic. Is a figure i rhetorick, by which the {peake fhews that he doubts where to begin for th multitude of matter, or what to f{ay i fome ftrange and-ambiguous thing and doth, a with himfelf it were, argue the caf Thus Cicero fays, Whe ther be took them from bis fellows more im pudently, gave them to a harlot more lafcivionfly, removed them from the Roma people more wickedly, or altered them mor prefumptuoufly, I cannot well declare APORRHO'EA n. Smith's Rbetorick [amopiéin.] Efflu vium; emanation; fomethin by another : not in ufe The reafon of this h by atomical aporrbeeas cruentate weapon to th porated with the particle to the affetted part APOSIOPE'SIS awo after n./ an emitte endeavours to make ou which pafling from th wound, and being incorof the falve, carry the Glanville's Scepfis [&Woaséflnasg ciwwdw to b fro filent A form of {peech, by which the {peaker through fome affeGtion, as forrow, bath fulnefs, fear, anger, or vehemency breaks off his fpeech before it be al ended A figure, when, {peaking of thing, we yet {eem to conceal it, thoug indeed we aggravate it; or whe th courfe of the fentence begun is fo ftayed as thereby fome part of the fentence not being uttered, may be underftood Smith's Rhbetorick Aro'sTasy. #. [ [éwésacis.] Departur from what a man has profefled : it i generally applied to religion; fometimes with the particle from The canon law defines apofiafy to be a wilful de parture_from that ftate of faith, which any perfo extravafate has profefled himfelf to hold in the Chriftian church blood making way from the ventricles of the brain Ayliffe's Parergon The affable archangel had forewarn' I an apoplettical cafe h foun Derbam ArorrLe'cTiCK. adj. [from apoplexy.] Relating to an apoplexy A lady was feized with an apoplefick fit, whic afterward terminated in fome kind of lethargy Wifeman A'PoPLEX. 7. /. [See ArorLEXY.] Apoplexy. The laft fyllable is cat away but this is only in poetry Piefent punifhment purfues his maw When furfeited and {well'd, the peacock ra H bear into the bath whenc want of breath Repletiops, apoplexy inteftate death Dryden Adam, by due example, to bewar Apoftafy, by what befel in heav' To thofe apoftates Milzon Vice in us were not only wickednefs, but apofta [9> degenerate wickednefs. Sprat Whoever do give different worfhips, muft brin in more gods; which is an apoffafy frem one God APO'STATE Stilling fleet #. [apoffata, Lat. imo sarns.] One that has forfaken his pro feflion ; generally applied to one tha has left his religion The ;:T\gcls, for difobedience, thou haft referve " |