appear, appere, apere, apiere

i. [In Fr. apparaitre, apparoir; Sp. aparacer; Port. apparecer; Ital. apparire; Lat. apparere, from ad, and pareo = to come forth, to appear.] IMG:content-0630.png:[blocks in formation] "Tho nicht efter thet apere de an angel of heuen in here slepe ine metinge, and hem seide and het."- old Kentish Sermons (ed. Morris), p. 27. "In that night did God appear unto Solomon."2 Chron. il. 7. (See also Mark xvi. 9; Exod. iii. 2; Matt. ii. 7; and Rev. xii. 1.) (b) To arise as an object of distinction among mankind. "Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard." Cowper: Table Talk, 556. (c) Formally to present one's self before a person, or at a place, as at a sacred spot for worship, or before a judge in a court of law, whether as the accused person, as the prosecutor, or as an advocate. When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose -Deut . xxx i. 11. seat of Christ "-2 v. 10. Heb . ix. 24. we must all all appear before the judgment to appear in the presence of God for us." "One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear."-Macaulay; Hist . Eng . , ch. xii. (d) To become visible to the eye of reason; to be fully established by observation or reasoning. "... from the way in which they at first acquitted themselves, it plainly appeared that he had judged wisely in not leading them out to battle."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xiv. 2. (Analogous to the sense of being visible.) To present the semblance of, to resemble: (a) Its being implied that, notwithstanding this, the reality is absent: "Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity." -Matt . xxiii. 28. (b) Without its being implied that the resemblance is unreal. the signature of another plainly appeared to have been traced by a hand shaking with emotion." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xiv. IMG:content-0631.png:[blocks in formation] (a) Entry into the world, into society, or a particular company or place. Or entry in a particular character. "Do the same justice to one another which will be done us hereafter by those who shall make their appear ance in the world, when this generation is no more," Add is on. *(b) Visibility to the mind's eye; probability, likelihood. "There is that which hath no appearance , that this priest being utterly unacquainted with the true person, according to whose pattern he should shape his counterfeit, should think it po ible for him to instruct his player."- Bacon . II. That which becomes visible. 1. A vision. "Bot so befell hyme that nycht to me it An aperans , the wich one to his spreit." Lance lot of the Lake (ed. Skeat), bk. i., 363-4 2. The aspect presented when a person or thing becomes visible; mien. "His external appearance is almost as well known to us as to his own captains and counsellors."- Macau lay: Hist. Eng . , ch. vii. "She knew not he was dead. She seem'd the same In person and appearance . Words worth: Excursion , bk. i. "As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, " -Ezek . 1. 28. 3. A phenomenon; the latter word, and not appearance, being that now commonly used by men of science. "The advancing day of experimental knowledge discloseth such appearances as will not lie even in any model extant." - Glanville: Scepsis. 4. Semblance, as opposed to reality; or outward show, as opposed to internal hollow ne . to answer them which glory in appearance , and not in heart."-2 Cor . v. 12. "Under a fair and beautiful appearance there should ever be the real substance of good."- Rogers . 4. To satiate a clamorous appetite, and by satiety make its cravings cease. "The stock of salted hides was considerable, and by gnawing them the garrison appeused the rage of hunger."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xii. ap-pē'aşed, pa. par. & a. [APPEASE.] ap-pē'ase-měnt, s. [Eng. appease; -ment.] 1. The act of pacifying. 2. The state of being pacified. 3. An article or guarantee of peace. "Being neither in numbers nor in courage great, partly by authority, partly by entreaty, they were reduced to some good appeasements ."-Hayward.