Crossword clues for apparition
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apparition \Ap`pa*ri"tion\, n. [F. apparition, L. apparitio, fr. apparere. See Appear.]
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The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
--Milton.The sudden apparition of the Spaniards.
--Prescott.The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world.
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The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
Which apparition, it seems, was you.
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An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom. ``The heavenly bands . . . a glorious apparition.''
--Milton.I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition.
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(Astron.) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation.
Circle of perpetual apparition. See under Circle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "unclosing" (of Heaven), from Anglo-French aparicion, Old French apparition, aparoison (15c.), used in reference to the Epiphany (revealing of Christ child to the Wise Men), from Late Latin apparitionem (nominative apparitio) "an appearance," also "attendants," in classical Latin "service, servants," noun of action from past participle stem of apparere "appear" (see appear). Meaning "ghost" first recorded c.1600; the shade of sense differentiation between appearance and apparition is that the latter tends to be unexpected or startling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. 2 The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. 3 An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom. 4 (context astronomy English) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured;—opposed to occultation. 5 (context astronomy English) A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed. An apparition begins with the heliacal rising of the body and ends with its heliacal setting.
WordNet
n. a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: phantom, phantasm, phantasma, specter, spectre]
the appearance of a ghostlike figure; "I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter"
something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" [syn: phantom, phantasm, phantasma, shadow]
an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly; "natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stanger"
Wikipedia
Apparition may refer to:
Things that are not real/things that are caused by hallucinations or mental instability.
Apparition is a 1982 synthpop album by The Legendary Pink Dots.
Apparition is a heavy metal album released in 2001 by Burning Inside. The album was the second and final release by the band. Well-known musicians Steve Childers, Richard Christy, Jamie Prim, and Michael Estes contributed to the album.
Apparition was a Los Angeles-based film distribution company founded by Bob Berney and Bill Pohlad in 2009. It purchased, distributed and marketed films of a more " art house" and "cutting-edge" flavor than do major studios. It also released select films theatrically on behalf of River Road Entertainment (Pohlad's company) and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group.
After the 2010 American release of the 2008 film The Square, the company shut down for unknown reasons.
Apparition is the second EP by the progressive metal band, The Contortionist. It was self-released by the band on September 24, 2009. The release shows the band's first move towards a more technical death metal sound while their debut EP, Shapeshifter, showed a more traditional deathcore sound. It is also the last release with Dave Hoffman on vocals, with Jonathan Carpenter joining afterwards to fill in the spot. Not long after the release of this EP, the band was signed to Good Fight and released their debut album, Exoplanet in the following year. The EP's artwork is a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic image assembled from 24 individual Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 exposures taken in October 1999, January 2000, and December 2000 of the Crab Nebula.
Most of the tracks were remastered and got new lyrics in the album Exoplanet: “Infection" was changed into “Expire", “Realms" became “Advent, “Eyes: Closed" became “Flourish" and of course, “Oscillator" had its redux with the same title.
There was also a Demo of “Predator" called “Predator Posing As A House Pet", which was released in the MySpace account of the band during the release of the Shapeshifter EP, but wasn't released as an album track of it.
Usage examples of "apparition".
Taylor, bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, after strictly examining Taverner anent the whole matter, expressed his belief in the realness of the apparition.
A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god, bluff-bowed and fearless as this mighty steed.
CHAPTER XXIV--Locarno We were attracted to Locarno by the approaching fetes in honour of the fourth centenary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Fra Bartolomeo da Ivrea, who founded the sanctuary in consequence.
Son apparition avait produit sur ce groupe de jeunes filles un effet singulier.
And a part of him was glad for that: physical undead or vicious apparition, he was fairly certain that her spirit, by the grace of the sword bestowed on him by the entelechy of dreams, had found its destined rest.
In both instances an assortment of spectacularly hideous alien apparitions visible and audible only to his chemically altered perception fumed powerlessly at him, threatening with tentacles and teeth, with razor-edged suckers and wet, unclean fumy lips.
Only poor Bertodulos, who joined them in order to admire the fustanella, shrank back into the house as soon as he saw the apparition of the departed.
I doubt whether Donne the man gave more than playful and dramatic harbourage to the mood expressed in The Apparition.
The Space Ranger did not move or speak, and Hennes found his eyes fastened upon the apparition.
I stared at this sinister apparition crawling towards me, I felt a tickling on my cheek as though a fly had lighted there.
Belief in them had become a mark of inferiority, like the allied belief in madstones, magic and apparitions.
Valentine, accredited Necromance, performing an apparition on the body of Christabel Moorcock, also accredited Necromance.
Lord Afton gravely regarded the dappled apparition that stared up at him, tail twitching, and then raised his eyes to the doorway where Pippin stood.
Oregon grape and salal, and the dank mossy forest of the Marian apparitions were all poorly served by the mass of travelers, who stormed through them like Roman legionnaires.
At dusk these apparitions were paraded through the streets with the Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto leading the way, intoning prayers.