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Title:  Glossographia, or, A dictionary interpreting all such hard words of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue with etymologies, definitions and historical observations on the same : also the terms of divinity, law, physick, mathematicks and other arts and sciences explicated / by T.B.
Author: Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.
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Appetible (appetibilis) to be or that may be desired.Appetition (appetitio) an earnest desire, endeavour, or lust. Hist. of Philosophy.Appian Way (Appia via) a notable street or High-way which leads from Rome to Ca∣pua in Campania, which Appius Claudius, in his Consulship, pa∣ved with stones and walled, and therefore took denomina∣tion from him; but was ex∣tended to Brundusium in Cala∣bria, by Julius Caesar and Tra∣jan. Of all others it seems to be the principal, by the testi∣mony of Papinias the Poet, Appia cunctarum fertur Regina viarum.Applaud (applaudo) to shew joy or liking of a thing, by clapping the hands, or other sign of rejoycing, to allow or praise.Applause (applausus) a clap∣ping the hands in token of joy or good liking of a thing.Application (applicatio) a making any thing meet with another, an applying of one thing to another.Applumbature (amplumba∣tura) a joyning or soldering with lead.Apposite (appositus) put or set to, meet for the purpose, convenient.Apposition (appositio) an adding or putting to, or toge∣ther.Appostile (Fr.) an answer to a Petition, set down in the margent thereof, and gene∣rally any smal addition to a great discourse in writing. Cotgr.Apprentice (Fr. Apprenti, and that from apprendre, to learn, whence their Apprenti∣sage, and our Apprentiship) is such a person, who serves a certain time (for the most part seven years) by pact, for the learning of any Art. In for∣mer time Barristers were cal∣led Apprentices to the Law. As appears by Mr. Seldens notes on Fortescu, p. 3. So the learned Plowden stiled him∣self; and Mr. Hen. Finch in his Nomotechnia writes himself Apprentice del Ley.Appretiate (appretio) to e∣steem at an high rate or price.Appretiation (appretiatio) an high valuing or estimation.Appretiatively (appretiati∣vè) according to the price or value; It is usually contradi∣stinguished to intensively; As we may be said to love a Dog more then a Childe intensive∣ly, but not appretiatively.Approperate (appropero) to hasten, to make speed to.Appropinquation (appro∣pinquatio) an approaching or coming nigh unto.Appropriation (appropria∣tio) a term in our Law when any Body corporate or private person hath the right, and converts the profit of an Ec∣clesiastical 0