apparition
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
apparition (plural apparitions)
- An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
- 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, OCLC 645131689:
- the sudden apparition of the Spaniards
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598:
- The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world.
- The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
- 1709 August 16, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler, number 55:
- […] which apparition, it seems, was you.
- An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.
- The attic is haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- I think it is the weakness of mine eyes / That shapes this monstrous apparition.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- The heavenly bands […] a glorious apparition.
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24:
- The apparition wobbled in front of Arthur's eyes, though the truth of the matter is probably that Arthur's eyes were wobbling in front of the apparition.
- (astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
- (astronomy) A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.
Synonyms[edit]
- (act of becoming visible): appearance
- (a preternatural appearance): vision
- See also Thesaurus:ghost
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
act of becoming visible
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thing appearing
unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
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astronomy: the first appearance of a luminary after having been invisible or obscured
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
apparition f (plural apparitions)
- appearance
- ghost
- Synonym: fantôme
- (baseball) plate appearance
- Synonyms: apparition au bâton, présence, présence au bâton
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Further reading[edit]
- “apparition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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