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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old form of appalment.

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Examples

  • If the musicke kepte still one time, those eyght vnyforme pawnes did spende the time in marching forwardes into an other checker, neuer comming backe vntill that worthily without touch or appalement of courage, they had leapt vppon the line of that square where was the residence of the Queene, proceeding straight on, vnlesse she tooke a prisoner by a Diagonick line.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

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