Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 76
Apodes (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels.
Apodes (n. pl.) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See {Apneumona}.
Apodeictic, Apodictic, Apodeictical, Apodictical (a.) 【邏】必然的；可明確論證的，絕對真實的 Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. -- Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton. Apodeictically
Apodictic (a.) Same as {Apodeictic}.
Apodictic (a.) Of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain [syn: apodictic, apodeictic].
Apodeictically (adv.) So as to be evident beyond contradiction.
Compare: Contradiction
Contradiction (n.) 矛盾 [C] [U] ；否認；反駁；抵觸 [U] [C]；自相矛盾的說法 [C] A combination of statements, ideas, or features which are opposed to one another.
‘The proposed new system suffers from a set of internal contradictions.’
Contradiction (n.) A situation in which inconsistent elements are present.
‘The paradox of using force to overcome force is a real contradiction.’
Contradiction (n.) [Mass noun] The statement of a position opposite to one already made.
‘The second sentence appears to be in flat contradiction of the first.’
[Count noun] ‘The experiment provides a contradiction of the hypothesis.’
Contradiction in terms (ph.) A statement or group of words associating incompatible objects or ideas.
‘She has demonstrated that the term ‘student-athlete’ isn't always a contradiction in terms.’
Apodeictically (adv.) (Not comparable) In an apodeictic manner.
Apodixis (n.) Full demonstration.
Apodosis (n.) (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.
Note: Some grammarians extend the terms protasis and apodosis to the introductory clause and the concluding clause, even when the sentence is not conditional.
Apodous (a.) (Zool.) Apodal; apod.
Apodous (a.) (Of snakes and eels) naturally footless; "eels are apodal" [syn: apodal, apodous].
Apodyterium (n.) (Anc. Arch.) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.
Apogaic (a.) Apogean.
Apogamic (a.) Relating to apogamy.
Syn: apogamous, apogametic.
Apogamic (a.) Of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization [syn: apogamic, apogametic, apogamous].
Apogamy (n.) (Bot.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore. -- De Bary.
Apogamy (n.) (Botany) Development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization.
Apogeal (a.) (Astron.) Apogean.
Apogean (a.) Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.
Apogean (a.) Relating to or characteristic of an apogee; "apogean tides occur when the moon is at the apogee of its orbit".
Apogee (n.) (Astron.) 最高點；頂點；極點；【天】遠地點 That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.
Note: 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.
Apogee (n.) Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.
Apogee (n.) A final climactic stage; "their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development" [syn: {apogee}, {culmination}].
Compare: Culmination
Culmination (n.) [Usually in singular] 頂點；高潮的到達 The highest or climactic point of something, especially as attained after a long time.
‘The deal marked the culmination of years of negotiation’
Culmination (n.) (Astrology) (Archaic) [usually in singular] The reaching of the meridian by a celestial body.
Apogee (n.) Apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth [ant: {perigee}].
Apogeotropic (a.) (Bot.) Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc. -- Darwin.
Apogeotropism (n.) The apogeotropic tendency of some leaves, and other parts.
Apograph (n.) A copy or transcript. -- Blount.
Apohyal (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.
Apoise (adv.) Balanced.
Apolar (a.) (Biol.) Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.
Apolaustic (a.) Devoted to enjoyment.
Apollinarian (a.) (Rom. Antiq.) In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games.
Apollinarian (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.
Apollinaris water () An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn.
Apollo (n.) (Classic Myth.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus.
The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame. Apollonian
Apollo (n.) (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis [syn: Apollo, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo].
Apollo, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 1765
Housing Units (2000): 856
Land area (2000): 0.316472 sq. miles (0.819658 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.034420 sq. miles (0.089148 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.350892 sq. miles (0.908806 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02720
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.584103 N, 79.564363 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15613
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Apollo, PA
Apollo
Apollonian (a.) Alt. of Apollonic
Apollonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Apollo.
Apollyon (n.) The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.
Apollyon, () Destroyer, the name given to the king of the hosts represented by the locusts (Rev. 9:11). It is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Abaddon (q.v.).
Apollyon, () A destroyer.
Apologer (n.) A teller of apologues. [Obs.] Apologetic
Apologetic (a.) Alt. of Apologetical.
Apologetical (a.) Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay. "To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone." -- Macaulay.
Apologetic (a.) Offering or expressing apology; "an apologetic note"; "an apologetic manner" [syn: apologetic, excusatory] [ant: unapologetic].
Apologetically (adv.) By way of apology.
Apologetically (adv.) In an apologetic manner; "he spoke apologetically about his past".
Apologetics (n.) That branch of theology which defends the Holy Scriptures, and sets forth the evidence of their divine authority.
Apologetics (n.) The branch of theology that is concerned with the defense of Christian doctrines.
Apologist (n.) One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.
Apologist (n.) A person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment" [syn: apologist, vindicator, justifier].
Apologize is the standard American English spelling.
Apologise is the standard British English spelling.
Apologized (imp. & p. p.) of Apologize.
Apologizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Apologize.
Apologize (v. i.) 道歉；認錯，賠不是 [（+to/ for）]；辯解，辯護 To make an apology or defense. -- Dr. H. More.
Apologize (v. i.) To make an apology or excuse; to make acknowledgment of some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering my letter.
Syn: apologize, excuse, justify, rationalize.
To apologize for his insolent language. -- Froude.
Apologize (v. t.) To defend. [Obs.]
The Christians . . . were apologized by Plinie. -- Dr. G. Benson.
Apologize (v.) Acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes" [syn: {apologize}, {apologise}].
Apologize (v.) Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success" [syn: {apologize}, {apologise}, {excuse}, {justify}, {rationalize}, {rationalise}].
Apologize (v. i.) To lay the foundation for a future offence.
Apologizer (n.) 辯護者 One who makes an apology; an apologist.
Apologue (n.) （道德）寓言；教訓 A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.
Note: An apologue differs from a parable in this;: the parable is drawn from events which take place among mankind, and therefore requires probability in the narrative; the apologue is founded on supposed actions of brutes or inanimate things, and therefore is not limited by strict rules of probability. [AE]sop's fables are good examples of apologues.
Apologue (n.) A short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: {fable}, {parable}, {allegory}, {apologue}].
Apologies (n. pl. ) of Apology.
Apology (n.) 護教；辯護；道歉 Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.
It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem; some will think it needs no excuse, and others will receive none. -- Dryden.
Apology (n.) An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.
Apology (n.) Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.
He goes to work devising apologies for window curtains. -- Dickens.
Syn: Excuse.
Usage: An apology, in the original sense of the word, was a pleading off from some charge or imputation, by explaining and defending one's principles or conduct.
It therefore amounted to a vindication. One who offers an apology, admits himself to have been, at least apparently, in the wrong, but brings forward some palliating circumstance, or tenders a frank acknowledgment, by way of reparation. We make an apology for some breach of propriety or decorum (like rude expressions, unbecoming conduct, etc.), or some deficiency in what might be reasonably expected. We offer an excuse when we have been guilty of some breach or neglect of duty; and we do it by way of extenuating our fault, and with a view to be forgiven.
When an excuse has been accepted, an apology may still, in some cases, be necessary or appropriate. "An excuse is not grounded on the claim of innocence, but is rather an appeal for favor resting on some collateral circumstance. An apology mostly respects the conduct of individuals toward each other as equals; it is a voluntary act produced by feelings of decorum, or a desire for the good opinion of others". -- Crabb.
Apology (v. i.) To offer an apology. [Obs.]
For which he can not well apology. -- J. Webster.
Apology (n.) An expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone; "he wrote a letter of apology to the hostess".
Apology (n.) A formal written defense of something you believe in strongly [syn: {apology}, {apologia}].
Apology (n.) A poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile" [syn: {apology}, {excuse}].
Apomecometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the height of objects. -- Knight.
Apomecometry (n.) The art of measuring the distance of objects afar off. [Obs. or R.] Apomorphia
Apomorphia (n.) Alt. of Apomorphine.
Apomorphine (n.) (Chem.) A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.
Aponeuroses (n. pl. ) of Aponeurosis.
Aponeurosis (n.) (Anat.) Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciae which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.
Aponeurosis (n.) Any of the deeper and thicker fascia that attach muscles to bones; resemble flattened tendons.
Aponeurotic (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.
Aponeurotic (a.) Of or relating to an aponeurosis; "muscles attached by a flat aponeurotic membrane".
Aponeurotomy (n.) Dissection of aponeuroses.
Apopemptic (a.) 臨別時所言的 Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apoplectic songs or hymns.
Apopemptic (a.) Addressed to one who is departing; "apopemptic hymns".
Apopemptic (a.) Pertaining to leave-taking or departing; valedictory.
Apopemptic (n.) ( Obs.) 告別詩歌 A farewell address; valedictory.
Apophasis (n.) (Rhet.) A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Caesar, iii. 2.]
Apophasis (n.) Mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned.
Apophlegmatic (a.) (Med.) Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils.
Apophlegmatic (n.) An apophlegmatic medicine.
Apophlegmatism (n.) (Med.) The action of apophlegmatics.
Apophlegmatism (n.) An apophlegmatic. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Apophlegmatizant (n.) (Med.) An apophlegmatic. [Obs.]
Apothegm, Apophthegm (n.) A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.
Note: [Apothegm is now the prevalent spelling in the United States.] Apothegmatic
Apophthegm (n.) See Apothegm. Apophthegmatic
Apophthegm (n.) A short pithy instructive saying [syn: aphorism, apothegm, apophthegm].
Apophthegmatic (a.) Alt. of Apophthegmatical.
Apophthegmatical (a.) Same as Apothegmatic.
Apophyge (n.) (Arch.) The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. -- Parker.
Apophyllite (n.) (Min.) A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.
-ses (n. pl. ) of Apophysis.
Apophysis (n.) (Anat.) A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.
Apophysis (n.) (Bot.) An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses. -- Gray.
Apoplectic
Apophysis (n.) (Botany) A natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers.
Apophysis (n.) (Anatomy) A natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra.
Apoplectic (a.) 中風的；生氣的，興奮的 Alt. of Apoplectical.
Apoplectical (a.) Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke.
Apoplectic (n.) 中風患者 One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy.
Apoplectic (a.) Pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy; "apoplectic seizure".
Apoplectiform (a.) Alt. of Apoplectoid.
Apoplectoid (a.) Resembling apoplexy.
Apoplectiform (a.) Resembling apoplexy [syn: {apoplectiform}, {apoplectoid}].
Apoplex (n.) Apoplexy. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Apoplexed (a.) Affected with apoplexy. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Apoplexy (n.) (Med.) 【醫】中風 Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.
Note: The term is now usually limited to cerebral apoplexy, or loss of consciousness due to effusion of blood or other lesion within the substance of the brain; but it is sometimes extended to denote an effusion of blood into the substance of any organ; as, apoplexy of the lung.
Apoplexy (n.) A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain [syn: {stroke}, {apoplexy}, {cerebrovascular accident}, {CVA}].
Compare: Diminution
Diminution (n.) [C, U] 縮小，減少，降低；【音】減值，（音值的）縮小A reduction in the size, extent, or importance of something.
‘A permanent diminution in value.’
[Mass noun] ‘The disease shows no signs of diminution.’
Diminution (n.) (Music) The shortening of the time values of notes in a melodic part.
Aporetical (a.) Doubting; skeptical. [Obs.] -- Cudworth.
Aporias (n. pl. ) of Aporia.
Aporia (n.) (Rhet.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.
Aporosa (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to {Perforata}.
Aporose (a.) (Zool.) Without pores.
Aport (adv.) (Naut.) On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.
Aposiopesis (n.) (Rhet.) 【文】說話中斷法 A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here".
Aposiopesis (n.) Breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations).
Apositic (a.) (Med.) Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.
Apostasies (n. pl. ) of Apostasy.
Apostasy (n.) 叛教；脫黨；變節 An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.
Apostasy (n.) The state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) [syn: {apostasy}, {renunciation}, {defection}].
Apostasy (n.) The act of abandoning a party for cause [syn: {apostasy}, {tergiversation}].
Apostate (n.) 叛教者；脫黨者；反叛者；變節者 One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.
Apostate (n.) (R. C. CH.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
Apostate (a.) 放棄信仰的；脫黨的；變節的 Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade.
So spake the apostate angel. -- Milton.
A wretched and apostate state. -- Steele.
Apostate (v. i.) To apostatize. [Obs.]
We are not of them which apostate from Christ. -- Bp. Hall.
Apostate (a.) Not faithful to religion or party or cause.
Apostate (n.) A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. [syn: {deserter}, {apostate}, {renegade}, {turncoat}, {recreant}, {ratter}].
Apostate (n.) A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
Apostatic (a.) Apostatical. [R.]
Apostatical (a.) Apostate.
An heretical and apostatical church. -- Bp. Hall.
Apostatized (imp. & p. p.) of Apostatize.
Apostatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Apostatize.
Apostatize (v. i.) To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.
He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in ?emblances. -- Carlyle.
Apostatize (v.) Abandon one's beliefs or allegiances [syn: apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate].
Apostemate (v. i.) To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. -- Wiseman.
Apostemation (n.) (Med.) The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] -- Wiseman.
Apostematous (a.) Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.
Aposteme (n.) (Med.) An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. [Written corruptly imposthume.]