2. Sanction, confirm, justify, ratify, sustain, make valid.
Approximate, a. 1. Proximate, approaching, coming near.
2. Nearly correct, nearly accurate or true.
Approximate, v. a. [Rare.] Bring near.
Approximate, v. n. Approach, come near.
Approximately, ad. Near, nearly, about, not far from.
Approximation, n. Approach.
Appulse, n. Collision, meeting, coming together, striking together.
Appulsive, a. Impinging, striking against.
Appurtenance, n. Adjunct, appendage, dependency.
Appurtenant, a. Belonging.
A priori, [L.] Theoretically, before experience, before trial, from assumed principles.
Apropos, a. [Fr.] Opportune, seasonable, timely, fit, suitable, apt, apposite, to the point, to the purpose, just the thing, quite the thing.
Apropos, ad. Opportunely, seasonably, to the purpose.
Apt, a. 1. Apposite, pertinent, suitable, fit, fitting, meet, befitting, germane, applicable, appropriate, apropos, to the point, to the purpose.
2. Inclined, liable, prone, disposed.
3. Quick, sharp, ready, prompt, expert, dexterous, able, clever, happy, adroit, handy, skilful.
4. Docile, teachable.
Aptitude, n. Turn, disposition, genius, gift, endowment, talent, faculty, capacity, capableness, tendency, inclination, bias, proclivity, proneness, propensity, forte, aptness.
Aptness, n. 1. Fitness, suitableness, appropriateness, adaptation, applicability.
2. Turn, tendency, inclination, aptitude.
3. Quickness, readiness, expertness, skill, facility, knack, adroitness, address, ability.
4. Docility, teachableness.
Aqua-fortis, n. [L.] Nitric acid (somewhat diluted), spirit of nitre.
Aqua-regia, n. [L.] Nitro-muriatic acid, nitro-chloro-hydric acid.
Aquarius, n. (Astron.) Water-bearer.
Aqueous, a. Watery, waterish, moist, wet, humid, damp.
Aquiline, a. Hooked (like an eagle's beak; applied especially to the nose), bent, curved.
Arab, n. Arabian, Saracen.
Arabesque, a. Moorish, moresque.
Arabian, a. Arabic.
Arabian, n. Arab, Saracen.
Arabic, a. Arabian.
Arable, a. That may be ploughed, fit for the plough, suitable for cultivation.
Arbiter, n. Arbitrator, umpire, judge, referee.
Arbitrament, n. 1. Choice, option, will, determination, decision, umpirage.
2. (Law.) Award, adjudication, determination, decision, decree.
Arbitrariness, n. Despotism, absoluteness, absolutism, tyranny, autocracy.