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7. An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. [Obs.]

An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield.

8. A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment. [U.S.]

Syn. -- Designation; command; order; direction; establishment; equipment.

Ap*point*or" (&?;), n. (Law) The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.

Ap*por"ter (&?;), n. [Cf. F. apporter to bring in, fr. L. apportare; ad + portare to bear.] A bringer in; an importer. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Ap*por"tion (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Apportioned (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Apportioning.] [OF. apportionner, LL. apportionare, fr. L. ad + portio. See Portion.] To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.

Ap*por"tion*ate*ness (&?;), n. The quality of being apportioned or in proportion. [Obs. & R.]

Ap*por"tion*er (&?;), n. One who apportions.

Ap*por"tion*ment (&?;), n. [Cf. F. apportionnement, LL. apportionamentum.] The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. A. Hamilton.

Ap*pose" (&?;), v. t. [F. apposer to set to; &?; (L. ad) + poser to put, place. See Pose.] 1. To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).

The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

2. To place in juxtaposition or proximity.

Ap*pose", v. t. [For oppose. See Oppose.] To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose.

To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly. Tyndale.

Ap*posed" (&?;), a. Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.

Ap*pos"er (&?;), n. An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

Ap"po*site (&?;), a. [L. appositus, p. p. of apponere to set or put to; ad + ponere to put, place.] Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- Ap"po*site*ly, adv. -- Ap"po*site*ness, n.

Ap`po*si"tion (&?;), n. [L. appositio, fr. apponere: cf. F. apposition. See Apposite.] 1. The act of adding; application; accretion.

It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot.

2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

3. (Gram.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.

Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.

Ap`po*si"tion*al (&?;), a. Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott.

Ap*pos"i*tive (&?;), a. Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. A noun in apposition. -- Ap*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.

Appositive to the words going immediately before. Knatchbull.

Ap*prais"a*ble (&?;), a. Capable of being appraised.

Ap*prais"al (&?;), n. [See Appraise. Cf. Apprizal.] A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.