app are ill, aparail, aparal

t. [From the substantive. In Fr. appareil ler (APPAREL, v., etym.); Prov. & Port. aparel har; Sp. aparejar; Ital. app are chi are.] (See the substantive.) A. [Remotely from Lat. paro = to make equal.] (See etym. of the substantive.) L. Literally: To dre , to clothe, to place garments upon. "And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled ."-2 Sam . xiii. 18. II. Figuratively : 1. To equip, to fit out, to furnish with weapons or other apparatus for war. (Used of warriors or of ships.) "Apparell'd as becomes the brave." Byron: The Bride of Abydos, I. ii. "It hath been agreed, that either of them should send ships to sea well manned and apparelled to fight." -Sir J. Hayward, 2. To deck out gaily, to adorn, to ornament, to render attractive. "Of ther fair chapel doubt therof had non, Wel app a rail led was it hie and bas, With riche iewelles stuffed many on." Romans of Partenay (ed. Skeat), 926-28. "There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparella in celestial light,. The glory and the freshne of a dream." Words worth: Intimations of immortality. Apparel is generally used in the pa. par. B. [Remotely from Lat. paro = to prepare (?).] To prepare. "And al swo hi hedden a para i led here offrendes swo kam si sterre thet yede to for hem in to Jerusalem."Old Kentish Sermons (ed. Morris), p. 26. ap-păr'-elled, *ap-păr'-ǎilled, * a-păr'ailed, *a-pår-al-it, pa. par. & a. [See APPAREL, v.] two white apparelled angels."- Strau : Life of Jesus (Transl. 1846), § 143. ap-păr-el-ling, * ap-păr-ayl-yng, a. & s. As substantive: Preparation. "For Tullius saith, that long apparaylyng byfore the bataille, maketh schort victorie."-Chaucer: Tale of Melibeus.