Apprentice (n.) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.
Apprentice (n.) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.
Apprenticed (imp. & p. p.) of Apprentice
Apprenticing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Apprentice
Apprentice (v. t.) To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
Apprenticeage (n.) Apprenticeship.
Apprenticehood (n.) Apprenticeship.
Apprenticeship (n.) The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.
Apprenticeship (n.) The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
Appressed (a.) Alt. of Apprest
Apprest (a.) Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem,
Apprised (imp. & p. p.) of Apprise
Apprising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Apprise
Apprise (v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.
Apprise (n.) Notice; information.
Apprizal (n.) See Appraisal.
Apprize (v. t.) To appraise; to value; to appreciate.
Apprizement (n.) Appraisement.
Apprizer (n.) An appraiser.
Apprizer (n.) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.
Approached (imp. & p. p.) of Approach
Approaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Approach
Approach (v. i.) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
Approach (v. i.) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
Approach (v. t.) To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance.
Approach (v. t.) To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood.
Approach (v. t.) To take approaches to.
Approach (v. i.) The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
Approach (v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near.
Approach (v. i.) Movements to gain favor; advances.
Approach (v. i.) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
Approach (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.
Approach (v. i.) See Approaching.
Approachability (n.) The quality of being approachable; approachableness.
Approachable (a.) Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.
Approachableness (n.) The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
Approacher (n.) One who approaches.
Approaching (n.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.
Approachless (a.) Impossible to be approached.
Approachment (n.) Approach.
Approbate (a.) Approved.
Approbate (v. t.) To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.
Approbation (n.) Proof; attestation.
Approbation (n.) The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation.
Approbation (n.) Probation or novitiate.
Approbative (a.) Approving, or implying approbation.
Approbativeness (n.) The quality of being approbative.
Approbativeness (n.) Love of approbation.
Approbator (n.) One who approves.
Approbatory (a.) Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.
Appromt (v. t.) To quicken; to prompt.
Approof (n.) Trial; proof.
Approof (n.) Approval; commendation.
Appropinquate (v. i.) To approach.
Appropinquation (n.) A drawing nigh; approach.
Appropinquity (n.) Nearness; propinquity.
Appropre (v. t.) To appropriate.
Appropriable (a.) Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.
Appropriament (n.) What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification.
Appropriate (a.) Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
Appropriated (imp. & p. p.) of Appropriate
Appropriating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appropriate
Appropriate (v. t.) To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
Appropriate (v. t.) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
Appropriate (v. t.) To make suitable; to suit.
Appropriate (v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
Appropriate (n.) A property; attribute.
Appropriately (adv.) In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
Appropriateness (n.) The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness.
Appropriation (n.) The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.
Appropriation (n.) Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
Appropriation (n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
Appropriation (n.) The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter.
Appropriative (a.) Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act.
Appropriator (n.) One who appropriates.
Appropriator (n.) A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
Approvable (a.) Worthy of being approved; meritorious.
Approval (n.) Approbation; sanction.
Approvance (n.) Approval.
Approved (imp. & p. p.) of Approve
Approving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Approve
Approve (v. t.) To show to be real or true; to prove.
Approve (v. t.) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
Approve (v. t.) To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.
Approve (v. t.) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.
Approve (v. t.) To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
Approve (v. t.) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
Approvedly (adv.) So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
Approvement (n.) Approbation.
Approvement (n.) a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States.
Approvement (n.) Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor.
Approver (n.) One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial.
Approver (n.) An informer; an accuser.
Approver (n.) One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2.
Approver (v. t.) A bailiff or steward; an agent.
Approving (a.) Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile.
Approximate (a.) Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
Approximate (a.) Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values.
Approximated (imp. & p. p.) of Approximate
Approximating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Approximate