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<h1>Apathistical</h1> <Xpage=<hw>Anx*i"e*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Anxieties</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>anxietas</ets>, fr. <ets>anxius</ets>: cf. F. <ets>anxi\'82t\'82</ets>. See <er>Anxious</er>.]</ety>67 <p><b>1.</b> <def>Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o<?/<?/vent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.</def>>

<hw>Ap`a*this"tic*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Apathetic; une motional.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Apathy</h1> <Xpage=<hw>Anx*i"e*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Anxieties</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>anxietas</ets>, fr. <ets>anxius</ets>: cf. F. <ets>anxi\'82t\'82</ets>. See <er>Anxious</er>.]</ety>67 <p><b>1.</b> <def>Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o<?/<?/vent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.</def>>

<hw>Ap"a*thy</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Apathies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>apathia</ets>, Gr. <?/; <?/ priv. + <?/, fr. <?/, <?/, to suffer: cf. F. <ets>apathie</ets>. See <er>Pathos</er>.]</ety> <def>Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.</def> "The <i>apathy</i> of despair."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<blockquote>A certain <b>apathy</b> or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>According to the Stoics, <b>apathy</b> meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. <i>Fleming.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; In the first ages of the church, the Christians adopted the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.</note>

<syn>Syn. -- Insensibility; unfeelingness; indifference; unconcern; stoicism; supineness; sluggishness.</syn>

<h1>Apatite</h1> <Xpage=<hw>Anx*i"e*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Anxieties</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>anxietas</ets>, fr. <ets>anxius</ets>: cf. F. <ets>anxi\'82t\'82</ets>. See <er>Anxious</er>.]</ety>67 <p><b>1.</b> <def>Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o<?/<?/vent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.</def>>

<hw>Ap"a*tite</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ deceit, fr. <?/ to deceive; it having been often mistaken for other minerals.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.</def>

<h1>Apaum\'82</h1> <Xpage=<hw>Anx*i"e*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Anxieties</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>anxietas</ets>, fr. <ets>anxius</ets>: cf. F. <ets>anxi\'82t\'82</ets>. See <er>Anxious</er>.]</ety>67 <p><b>1.</b> <def>Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o<?/<?/vent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.</def>>

<hw>A`pau`m\'82"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Appaum<?/</er>.</def>

<h1>Ape</h1> <Xpage=<hw>Anx*i"e*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Anxieties</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>anxietas</ets>, fr. <ets>anxius</ets>: cf. F. <ets>anxi\'82t\'82</ets>. See <er>Anxious</er>.]</ety>67 <p><b>1.</b> <def>Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o<?/<?/vent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.</def>>

<hw>Ape</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>apa</ets>; akin to D. <ets>aap</ets>, OHG. <ets>affo</ets>, G. <ets>affe</ets>, Icel. <ets>api</ets>, Sw. <ets>apa</ets>, Dan. <ets>abe</ets>, W. <ets>epa</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family <i>Simiad\'91</i>, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus <spn>Hylobates</spn>, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called <i>anthropoid apes</i> or <i>man apes</i>.</def>

<note>&hand; The <i>ape</i> of the Old Testament was prqobably the rhesus monkey of India, and allied forms.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.</def>

<i>Byron.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A dupe.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Ape</h1> <Xpage=<hw>Anx*i"e*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Anxieties</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>anxietas</ets>, fr. <ets>anxius</ets>: cf. F. <ets>anxi\'82t\'82</ets>. See <er>Anxious</er>.]</ety>67 <p><b>1.</b> <def>Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o<?/<?/vent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.</def>>

<hw>Ape</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Aped</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Aping</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.</def> "How he <i>apes</i> his sire."

<i>Addison.</i>

<blockquote>The people of England will not <b>ape</b> the fashions they have never tried. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Apeak</h1> <Xpage=<hw>Anx*i"e*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Anxieties</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>anxietas</ets>, fr. <ets>anxius</ets>: cf. F. <ets>anxi\'82t\'82</ets>. See <er>Anxious</er>.]</ety>67 <p><b>1.</b> <def>Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o<?/<?/vent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.</def>>

<hw>A*peak"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv. & a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>a-</ets> + <ets>peak</ets>. Cf. F. <ets>\'85 pic</ets> vertically.]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>In a vertical line. The anchor in <i>apeak</i>, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove <i>apeak</i>.</def> <altsp>[Spelt also <asp>apeek</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Apehood</h1> <Xpage=<hw>Anx*i"e*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Anxieties</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>anxietas</ets>, fr. <ets>anxius</ets>: cf. F. <ets>anxi\'82t\'82</ets>. See <er>Anxious</er>.]</ety>67 <p><b>1.</b> <def>Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o<?/<?/vent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.</def>>

<hw>Ape"hood</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being an ape.</def>