Poetry. It is also a figure, when we convert our speech from one matter or person to another.Apostume (apostema) an Impostume, an unnatural swel∣ling of any corrupt matter in the body. See Impostume.Apothegme. See Apophthegm.Apotheke (apotheca) a place where any thing is laid to be kept, as a shop, ware-house, or store-house.Apotomy (apotomia) a cut∣ting off; a Mathematical term.Apozeme (apozema) a de∣coction, or medicine made of water with divers kindes of Spices and Herbs boiled toge∣ther, used instead of Syrrups; broth. Bac. Nat. Hist.Apparell (Fr.) preparation, provision, ready making; It is an antient word used in the Accounts of the Inner Temple, and signifies that sum at the foot of an account, which the house remains in debt, or which remains charged on the house.Apparitor (Lat.) a Serje∣ant, Beadle, or Sumner; but most commonly used for an inferior Officer that summon∣ed in Delinquents to a spiri∣tual Court.Appeal (Fr. appel) is often used in our Common Law as in the Civil: which is a re∣moving of a cause from an in∣ferior Judge to a superior, as Appeal to Rome, Ann. 24. H. 8. c. 12. and 1 Eliz. c. 1. So St. Paul appealed from Festus to Caesar. And it is also common∣ly used for the private accusa∣tion of a murtherer, by a per∣son who had interest in the murthered party; or of any Felon, by one of his compli∣ces in the Fact. See more of this in Mr. Leighs Phil. Comm.Appellation (appellatio) a calling or pronouncing an Appeal.Appellative (appellativus) naming, mentioning or cal∣ling. Grammatically it is ta∣ken for common, opposite to proper; as this word homo, a man, is by the Grammarians called a Noun, or name appel∣lative, because common to all men; and this word Petrus, Pe∣ter, is a Noun or name proper to one individual person.Appendant (appendens) is any thing belonging to ano∣ther, As Accessorium principali, with the Civilians, or Adjun∣ctum subjecto with the Logici∣ans. An Hospital may be ap∣pendant to a Manor. Fitzher. Nat. Br. fol. 142. Common of fishing appendant to a Free∣hold. Westm. 2. cap. 25. An. 13. Ed. 1.Appennage. See Apennage.Appenditious (appendicus) that depends on another, per¦taining to an Appendix.Appendix (Lat) a hang-by, an addition, a Pent-house, label or any thing that de∣pends on another.Appensor (Lat.) he that weighs or ponders.Appetency (appetentia) ap∣petite, desire, lust.0