Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Open; evident; undisguised: as, ″apert confessions,” Fotherby, Atheomastix, p. 358.
- Openly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Openly.
- adjective Archaic Open; evident; undisguised.
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- adjective archaic
open ; uncovered; revealed
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Examples
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About our national life in this period, both in its virtues and in its vices, there is something -- it matters little whether we call it -- childlike or childish; in its "apert" if not in its privy sides it lacks the seriousness belonging to men and to generations, who have learnt to control themselves, instead of relying on the control of others.
Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880
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Did any of Hillary supporters ever consider that her deceptive tactics and lies to paint Mr. Obama as a muslim, un-patrotic, un-amercan, and apert of some Black People movement to destroy the American people.
Obama camp out with new gas tax ad, Clinton camp fires back 2008
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Neerlee tiem fur my evenin meel, soe Ai fink an apper.. apert small sherree wud fill teh bill.
Teknitian cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Note 85: Koenig 4, p. 53: "Et bien li dit tout en apert,/Que, s'ele ensi son enfant pert,/Ja mais nul jor n'ara fiance/En sa douceur n'en sa puissance." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Habebat etiam semper capellam Christianorum ante maius, tentorium suum, vbi cantant Clerici public� et apert�, ac pulsant ad horas, vt c鎡eri Christiani secundum mores Gr鎐orum, quantacunque sit ibi multitudo Tartarorum, vel etiam aliorum hominum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Etiam h鎐 fontium topographia satis apert� monstrat, qu鄊 ex impuro fonte has suas narrationes omnes miraculosas hauserit
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Omnes port� templorum sunt apert� ad meridiem contrario modo Saracenis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sed et hic in prolem dulcissimam affectus naturalis in Ethnicis etiam satis apert� conspicitur: vt si quos hoc penit鵶 exueris, eosdem etiam homines esse negaueris.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sed hic vulgi iudicium, vt in alijs s鎝�, etiam eos qui sapere volunt (iam omnes bonos et cordatos excipio) nimis apert� decipit:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But for because that fools are more than wise men, therefore for favour of fools such singular doers ween that they be wise, when (if it were wisely determined) they and all their fautors [300] should be seen apert fools, and darts shot of the devil, to slay true simple souls under colour of holiness and charity.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
jinglebelljosie commented on the word apert
adv. open, unconcealed
October 23, 2008
biocon commented on the word apert
In addition, apert means 1. distinguished, clever, ready, expert; 2. outspoken, forward in manner, bold, insolent (OED).
January 14, 2012