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‖n. [ Gr. 'ana` back + &unr_; offshoot. ] (Anat.) An accessory process in many lumbar vertebræ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + apoplectic. ] (Med.) Alleviating apoplexy. -- n. A medicine used for alleviating apoplexy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. & n. (Med.) Same as Antapoplectic. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Gr. &unr_;. See Ab-. ] A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apocalypsis, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to uncover, to disclose; &unr_; from + &unr_; to cover, conceal: cf. F. apocalypse. ] 1. (Eccl.) One of a numerous class of writings proceeding from Jewish authors between 250 b. c. and 150 a. d., and designed to propagate the Jewish faith or to cheer the hearts of the Jewish people with the promise of deliverance and glory; or proceeding from Christian authors of the opening centuries and designed to portray the future. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Specifically, the revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament (called Revelation or the Apocalypse). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything viewed as a revelation, especially one that is highly significant for the person receiving it; a disclosure. Often used of a realization or revelation that changes a person's goals or style of life. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The new apocalypse of Nature. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. the final battle between good and evil, as foreseen in Saint John's Apocalypse; the time when God conquers the powers of evil, attended by cataclysmic cosmic events, and sometimes thought of as the end of the world; an Armageddon. [ PJC ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling an apocalypse, in senses 3 or 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apocalyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in Rev. xiii. 18., in which it is described as the number of the “beast of the earth”. It has been variously interpreted. Some fundamentalist Christians consider it to be the number of the Devil, and avoid or fear objects containing that number. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adv. By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

, n. The writer of the Apocalypse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. apo- + Gr. karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. apo- + chromatic. ] (Optics) Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective. -- Ap`o*chro"ma*tism n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ Pref. apo- + codeine. ] (Chem.) An alkaloid, C18H19NO2, prepared from codeine. In its effects it resembles apomorphine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ LL. apocopatus, p. p. of apocopare to cut off, fr. L. apocore. See Apocope. ] (Gram.) To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Shortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; a cutting off, fr. &unr_; to cut off; &unr_; from + &unr_; to cut. ] 1. The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A cutting off; abscission. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ L. apocrisiarius, apocrisarius, fr. Gr. &unr_; answer, fr. &unr_; to answer; &unr_; from + &unr_; to separate. ] (Eccl.) A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; able to drive off, fr. &unr_; to drive off. ] (Med.) Astringent and repellent. -- n. An apocrustic medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl., but often used as sing. with pl. Apocryphas [ L. apocryphus apocryphal, Gr. &unr_; hidden, spurious, fr. &unr_; to hide; &unr_; from + &unr_; to hide. ] 1. Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by others. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Fourteen such writings, or books, formed part of the Septuagint, but not of the Hebrew canon recognized by the Jews of Palestine. The Council of Trent included all but three of these in the canon of inspired books having equal authority. The German and English Reformers grouped them in their Bibles under the title Apocrypha, as not having dogmatic authority, but being profitable for instruction. The Apocrypha is now commonly &unr_;mitted from the King James's Bible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to the Apocrypha. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. [ 1913 Webster ]

The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; dogbane; &unr_; from + &unr_; dog. ] (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Apocynum, the generic name of dogbane. ] (Chem.) A bitter principle obtained from the dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. See Apod, n. ] (Zool.) (a) A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs. (b) An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha. (c) A group of worms without appendages, as the leech. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Apod, n. ] 1. Without feet; footless. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Apodal. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. Apods r Apodes [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, footless; 'a priv. + &unr_;, &unr_;, foot. ] (Zool.) One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The bird of paradise formerly had the name Paradisea apoda, being supposed to have no feet, as these were wanting in the specimens first obtained from the East Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. apo- + Gr. &unr_; body. ] (Zool.) One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., masc. pl. See Apoda. ] (Zool.) (a) An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels. (b) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Apodeictic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. apodicticus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to point out, to show by argument; &unr_; from + &unr_; to show. ] Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

, adv. So as to be evident beyond contradiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 an oreer of birds including the swifts and hummingbirds.
Syn. -- order Apodiformes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;. ] Full demonstration. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to give back; &unr_; from, back again + &unr_; to give. ] (Gram.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, ” the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some grammarians extend the terms protasis and apodosis to the introductory clause and the concluding clause, even when the sentence is not conditional. [ 1913 Webster ]

#), a. (Zool.) Apodal; apod. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to strip one's self. ] (Anc. Arch.) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; far from the earth. ] Apogean. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to apogamy.
Syn. -- apogamous, apogametic [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to apogamy.
Syn. -- apogamic, apogametic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. apo- + Gr. &unr_; marriage. ] (Bot.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore. De Bary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Astron.) Apogean. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; from the earth; &unr_; from + &unr_;, &unr_;, earth: cf. F. apogée. ] 1. (Astron.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Formerly, on the hypothesis that the earth is in the center of the system, this name was given to that point in the orbit of the sun, or of a planet, which was supposed to be at the greatest distance from the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. apo- + Gr. &unr_; earth + &unr_; turning. ] (Bot.) Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The apogeotropic tendency of some leaves, and other parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; from + &unr_; to write: cf. F. apographe. ] A copy or transcript. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]