Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bask in the sun.
- To expose to sunlight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To bask in the sun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
bask in thesun
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Examples
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While "appricate" may not be a word, it's closer to "apricate" which apparently is--thank you dictionary.com! than "appreciate".
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I deem it for the mind to apricate in the shelter of epistolary confidence, were it not that a considerable, I might even say a large, number of individuals in this parish expect from their pastor some publick expression of sentiment at this crisis.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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No longer were social parties the old heraldic solemnities [Footnote 4] enjoined by red letters in the almanac, in which the chief objects were to discharge some arrear of ceremonious debt, or to ventilate old velvets, or to _apricate_ and refresh old gouty systems and old traditions of feudal ostentation, which both alike suffered and grew smoke-dried under too rigorous a seclusion.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
whichbe commented on the word apricate
To bask in the sun.
May 17, 2008
reesetee commented on the word apricate
Suddenly I have a new appreciation for aprication. Does it make you resemble an apricot?
May 17, 2008
qms commented on the word apricate
Since snow came early and late
No surfeit of sunshine will sate.
Now all that I ask
Is to blissfully bask,
To languidly lie and apricate.
May 8, 2015