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<i>Withering.</i>

<h1>Appendix</h1> <Xpage=72>

<hw>Ap*pen"dix</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. E. <plw>Appendixes</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>, L. <plw>Appendices</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>(#). <ety>[L. <ets>appendix</ets>, -<ets>dicis</ets>, fr. <ets>appendere</ets>. See <er>Append</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.</def>

<blockquote>Normandy became an <b>appendix</b> to England. <i>Sir M. Hale.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from <i>supplement</i>, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Supplement</er>.</syn>

<h1>Appension</h1> <Xpage=72>

<hw>Ap*pen"sion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of appending.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Apperceive</h1> <Xpage=72>

<hw>Ap`per*ceive"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>apercevoir</ets>, fr. L. <ets>ad + percipere</ets>, <ets>perceptum</ets>, to perceive. See <er>Perceive</er>.]</ety> <def>To perceive; to comprehend.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Apperception</h1> <Xpage=72>

<hw>Ap`per*cep"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>ad-</ets> + <ets>perception</ets>: cf. F. <ets>apperception</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> <def>The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception.</def>

<i>Leibnitz. Reid.</i>

<blockquote>This feeling has been called by philosophers the <b>apperception</b> or consciousness of our own existence. <i>Sir W. Hamilton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Apperil</h1> <Xpage=72>

<hw>Ap*per"il</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Peril.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Appertain</h1> <Xpage=72>

<hw>Ap`per*tain"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Appertained</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Appertaining</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>apperteinen</ets>, <ets>apertenen</ets>, OF. <ets>apartenir</ets>, F. <ets>appartenir</ets>, fr. L. <ets>appertinere</ets>; <ets>ad + pertinere</ets> to reach to, belong. See <er>Pertain</er>.]</ety> <def>To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate.</def>

<blockquote>Things <b>appertaining</b> to this life. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Give it unto him to whom it <b>appertaineth</b>. <i>Lev. vi. 5.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Appertainment</h1> <Xpage=72>

<hw>Ap`per*tain"ment</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which appertains to a person; an appurtenance.</def> <mark>[Obs. or R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Appertinance, Appertinence</h1> <Xpage=72>

<hw><hw>Ap*per"ti*nance</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Ap*per"ti*nence</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Appurtenance</er>.</def>

<h1>Appertinent</h1> <Xpage=72>

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