Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Kesembling an apparition; having the nature of a phantom: spectral.
- Capable of appearing; endowed with materializing qualities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an
apparition or apparitions;ghostly ;immaterial ;spectral .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling or characteristic of a phantom
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Examples
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He summoned them before him in apparitional procession: Bernard Higginbotham arm in arm with Mr. Butler,
Chapter 29 2010
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He summoned them before him in apparitional procession: Bernard Higginbotham arm in arm with Mr. Butler,
Chapter 29 1908
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The form that was Jesse Fancher, the body that was his, being matter and apparitional, like an apparition passed and was not.
Chapter 13 2010
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That is, matter manifests itself in form, and form is apparitional.
Chapter 12 2010
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It continued to exist, and, in its next incarnation, became the residing spirit of that apparitional body known as Darrell Standing's which soon is to be taken out and hanged and sent into the nothingness whither all apparitions go.
Chapter 13 2010
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The emptiness of the space which he had expected to see occupied, was appalling, and he shrank down, sick and dizzy with the baffling apparitional past that thus vexed his consciousness.
CHAPTER XXXIV 2010
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Form is apparitional and passes, as passed the physical forms of the Lady Om and Chong Mong-ju.
Chapter 16 2010
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The long darks, the growings of nebulous lights, and the fluttering apparitional selves that dawned through the growing light!
Chapter 18 2010
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Mainstay Philip Glass and regulars Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed will be joined by the apparitional downtown vocalist Antony Hegarty , as well as Dechen Shak-Dagsay, a noted singer of Tibetan Buddhist songs.
Welcome Back To the Jungle Andy Battaglia 2012
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I mean, you know, the - I just - one of the things I like about poetry is that the poets make - they're like apparitional figures.
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