Themistocles made Xerxes king of Persia post apace out of Græcia. Bacon, Essay of Fame.

Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.

Shakespeare, Rich. III. II. 4.

Id. Rom. and Jul. III. 2.

Gallop apace, ye fiery-footed steeds.

The full phrase was probably 'a great pace,' like Fr. a grands pas, for we find 'pace' as in the following passages qualified by an adjective.

This messanger, whan he awoke,
And wist nothinge how it was,
Arose and rode the great pas
And toke his letter to the kinge.

Gower, Conf. Am. 1. p. 192.
Id. p. 210.

And riden after softe pas.

Our escouts rode as neere Paris as was possible, the which were often beaten backe to our watch, and eftsoones (the enimie on their backe) as far as our cariage, retiring sometime a softpace, and sometime a fast trot. Philip de Commines, trans. Danett, p. 29.

Apparel, sb. (2 Sam. xii. 20; Is. iii. 22; 1 Tim. ii. 9; Jam. ii. 2). Clothing, dress, from Fr. appareil, equipage, attire. The Fr. pareil is, like the It. parecchio, from the Med. Latin pariculus, diminutive of par, equal, like; whence are formed Fr. appareiller and It. apparecchiare, to couple, join like to like, fit, suit (see Diez, Etymol. Wörterbuch der Rom. Spr. p. 252). Like the more common word 'dress,' apparel had formerly a much wider signification than in later times: it is now seldom used.

I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel, and to cry like a woman. Shakespeare, As You Like It, II. 4.

I was never manned with an agate till now; but I will set you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and send you back again to your master for a jewel. Id. 2 Hen. IV. 1. 2.

Apparelled, pp. (2 Sam. xiii. 18; Luke vii. 25). Clad, dressed.

They met with a coach drawne with foure milke white horses furnished all in blacke, with a blacke a More boy upon euery horse, they all apparelled in white. Sidney, Arcadia, p. 36, 1. 22.

Chaucer uses the verb 'apparel' in the sense of 'to dress' meat. In enumerating the species of gluttony he says,

The ferthe is curiosite, with gret entent to make and apparayle his mete. The Parson's Tale.

And also in the sense of 'to prepare,' generally like Fr. appareiller.

Thanne say I, that in vengeance takinge, in werre, in bataile, and in warmstoringe of thin hous, er thou bygynne, I rede that thou apparaille the therto, and do it with gret deliberacioun. The Tale of Melibeus.

Apparently, adv. (Num. xii. 8). Manifestly, clearly,

openly.

And therefore I saye and affirme yt you do apparantly wrong, and manyfest iniury to procede in any thinge agaynst kyng Richard. Hall, Hen. IV. fol. 10 a.

I would not spare my brother in this case,

If he should scorn me so apparently.

Shakespeare, Com. of Err. IV. 1.

Hall (Hen. IV. fol. 11a) describes an abbot in Westminster in the time of Henry IV. as 'a man of apparant vertues.' So in Shakespeare's K. John, IV. 2:

It is apparent foul-play; and 'tis shame
That greatness should so grossly offer it.

Apple of the eye (Deut. xxxii. 10; Ps. xvii. 8, &c.). The eye-ball. The A. S. œpl or appel is used in the same way, and eág-œppel is the apple of the eye.

Concerning the signs of life and death which may be found in man, this is one, That so long as the patients eie is so cleare that a man may see himselfe in the apple of it, wee are not to despaire of life. Holland's Pliny, XXVIII. 6.

None haue their eyes all of one color: for the bal or apple in the midst is ordinarily of another color than the white about it. Ibid. XI. 37.

Appoint, v. t. (Gen. xxx. 28). The Hebrew literally signifies to prick, expressly name;' thus corresponding to the O. E. 'prick out' as used in Shakespeare (Love's L. Lost, v. 2); The whole world again

Cannot prick out five such.

From O. Fr. à poinct, aptly, in good time, fully,' comes appoinct, fitness, &c,' and appoincter, 'to pronounce fitting, determine.' Hence in Shakespeare the expressions to point and at point;

Hast thou, spirit,

Performed to point the tempest that I bade thee?

A figure like your father, arm'd at point.

Temp. I. 2.

The latter of these passages illustrates the usage of 'appointed' in the sense of equipped' in Judg. xviii. 11. (Heb. 'girt'). In the sense of expressly naming, as in the verse of Genesis above quoted, it occurs in Latimer (Rem. p. 308); 'I name nor appoint no person nor

persons.

'Appoint out' in Josh. xx. 2, is the translation of what is elsewhere rendered 'assign,' as in v. 8 (see also Gen. xxiv. 44). In this sense 'appoint' is used in Gen. xxx. 28, and by Latimer (Serm. p. 304); 'But who shall appoint him a sufficient living? himself? Nay. Who then? you? Nay, neither. The king must appoint him sufficient to live upon.'

The king would vndoubtedly yf he had entended that thinge haue appointed that boocherly office to some other then his owne borne brother. Sir T. More's Rich. III. (Works, p. 37 g).

All Wales and the landes beyond Seuerne westward, were appoyncted to Owen Glendor. Hall, Hen. IV. fol. 20 b.

Among these captains, lords, and knights of skill,
Appoint me ten, approued most in fight.

Fairfax's Tasso, IV. 63.

Appointed, pp. (Judg. xviii. 11). Equipped.

It shall be so my care

To have you royally appointed as if

The scene you play were mine.

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, IV. 4.

And so I do, and with his gifts present

Your lordships, that whenever you have need,
You may be armed and appointed well.

Id. Titus Andron. IV. 2.

Apprehend, v. t. From the Latin 'apprehendo,' literally means to lay hold of, to take by the hand, in which sense it is used in Phil. iii. 12. The passage throughout has reference to the Grecian games; apprehend in the first part of the sentence meaning to lay hold of the goal, and so receive the prize; in the second part, meaning take hold of by the hand and introduce to the course, as was customary. Johnson quotes from Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living, II. 6;

There is nothing but hath a double handle, or at least we have two hands to apprehend it.

Approve, v. t. From Lat. probus, 'honest, good,' comes probare, 'to deem good;' whence approbare, and Fr. approver. It is used in two senses in the New Testament:-1. To prove, demonstrate; Acts ii. 22; 2 Cor. vi. 4, vii, II. So Shakespeare (Mer. of Ven. III. 2):

In religion,

What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text?

2. To put to the proof, test, try; as in Rom. ii. 18; Phil. i.

10.

Nay task me to the word, approve me, lord.
Id. 1 Hen. IV. IV. I.

He is of a noble strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. Id. Much Ado, II. I.

Apt, adj. From Lat. aptus, fit, adapted. (2 Kings xxiv. 16; 1 Tim. iii. 2; 2 Tim. ii. 24.) In the phrase 'apt to melt,' Wisd. xix. 21, it seems to come near to the modern sense of 'inclined or disposed.'

The earthe is not apte for wines. Pol. Vergil, 1. 20.

Any fish that takes salt, of which the herring is the aptest. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, pref.

No man that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh back, is apt for the kingdom of God. Luke ix. quoted in Latimer, Serm. p. 59.

So are there states, great in territorie, and yet not apt to enlarge, or command; and some, that have but a small dimension of stemme, and yet apt to be the foundations of great monarchies. Bacon, Ess. XXIX. p. 120.

Ark, sb. (Ex. ii. 3). Lat. arca; A.S. arc, earc, a chest, coffer. In this literal sense it was used in old English.

In the rich arke Dan Homer's rimes he placed.

You have beheld how they
With wicker arks did come,

To kisse and beare away
The richer couslips home.

Surrey, Sonnets.

Herrick, Hesperides, I. p. 147.

It is generally applied exclusively to Noah's Ark, and the Ark of the Covenant. The meal-ark, made of stout oak boards, often beautifully carved, is still an article of furniture in oldfashioned farmhouses in Yorkshire; and at one time the fabrication of such arks was a trade of sufficient importance to have originated the surname Arkwright. The parish-chest is called an ark in some old accounts: '1744, pd. Wm. Yates for setting up ark, Ecclesfield, Yorks. Hunter (Hallams. Gloss.) says, that the strong boxes in which the Jews kept their valuables were anciently called their arks; so that our translators had good preced