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3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun.

To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. Macaulay.

What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid.

Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon. -- Apparent time. See Time. -- Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive.

Syn. -- Visible; distinct; plain; obvious; clear; certain; evident; manifest; indubitable; notorious.

Ap*par"ent, n. An heir apparent. [Obs.]

I'll draw it [the sword] as apparent to the crown. Shak.

Ap*par"ent*ly, adv. 1. Visibly. [Obs.] Hobbes.

2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.

If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak.

3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.

Ap*par"ent*ness, n. Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness. [R.] Sherwood.

Ap`pa*ri"tion (&?;), n. [F. apparition, L. apparitio, fr. apparere. See Appear.] 1. The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. Milton.

The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. Prescott.

The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. Sir W. Scott.

2. The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.

Which apparition, it seems, was you. Tatler.

3. An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom. "The heavenly bands . . . a glorious apparition." Milton.

I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition. Shak.

4. (Astron.) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation.

Circle of perpetual apparition. See under Circle.

Ap`pa*ri"tion*al (&?;), a. Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. "An apparitional soul." Tylor.

Ap*par"i*tor (&?;), n. [L., fr. apparere. See Appear.] 1. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.

Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

2. (Law) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. Bouvier.

||Ap`pau`mé" (&?;), n. [F. appaumé; &?; (l. ad) + paume the palm, fr. L. palma.] (Her.) A hand open and extended so as to show the palm.

Ap*pay" (&?;), v. t. [OF. appayer, apaier, LL. appacare, appagare, fr. L. ad + pacare to pacify, pax, pacis, peace. See Pay, Appease.] To pay; to satisfy or appease. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Ap*peach" (&?;), v. t. [OE. apechen, for empechen, OF. empeechier, F. empêcher, to hinder. See Impeach.] To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach. [Obs.]