apozem i cal

[Eng. apozem; -ical.] Pertaining to an apozem or decoction; resembling an apozem or decoction. "Wine, that is duute, may safely and profitably be adhibited in an apozem i cal form in fevers. - Whitaker: Blood of the Grape , p. 33. * ap-pā'id, * ap-pā'yed, pa . par . [APPAY.] * ăp-pä'ire, * ap-pä'yre, *a-pä'ire, *apê'ire, * ap-pê'ir, v.t. & i. [N [Norm. Fr. appeirer; from Lat. ad , implying addition to, and pejoro = to make worse; pejor = Fr. pire , Prov . peire worse.] [IMPAIR.] A. Transitive: To impair, to make worse; to le en, weaken, or injure. (Now IMPAIR.) his flatereres, maden semblaunt of wepyng, and appaired and aggregged moc he of this matiere, -Chaucer: Tale of Melibeus . " B. Intransitive: To become worse or le ; to degenerate. "I see the more that I them for bere, The worse they be fro yere to yere: All that lyveth appayreth fast." Morality of Every Man Hawkins's Old Pl ., 1. 88.