Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery:
- noun The reduction of a dislocation or fracture. Hooper.
- noun The disposition proper to be given to a fractured limb after reduction. Dunglison.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc.
- noun A dressing room connected with a public bath.
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- noun architecture A place on the
south side of thechancel inprimitive churches , furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc. - noun A
dressing room connected with apublic bath .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The network is commiting all this attention because, to the long-standing executives (many of whom worked on TRL), Alexa is the apothesis of cool, the woman they hope will amp up their teetering daytime lineup.
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The date of Hegesippus is fixed by the statement that the death and apothesis of Antinous were in his own time (130), that he came to Rome under Anicetus (154-7 to 165-8) and wrote in the time of Eleutherus (174-6 to 189-91).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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This may be called the Age of Woman -- the era of her apothesis.
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The young girl, now in the fresh beauty of her eighteenth spring, allows her dreamy gaze to wander to the apothesis of the setting sun, happy in living, happier still in loving.
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Here were to be seen the Apollo _Sauroctonos_ in bronze, the Diana in alabaster, and the _unique_ bas-relief of the apothesis of Hercules.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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Really, Miami seems like the apothesis of the Invite-The-World policies of the Bush Administration.
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