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Definitions

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of appear.

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Examples

  • Town employd in gathering Wild broom, Roses, popies, and blue cornflowers, and working them into wreaths, till every door and window in the place was decorated, and appear'd to say 'Rejoice!'

    Letter 291 2009

  • Reception, not from the publick, nor from Reviewers in general who appear'd well contented, but from the Author and from some of his acquaintance '&c

    Letter 62 2009

  • On the illuminated sand below appear'd a mixd society of creatures, apparently mortal who either actually were happy or had left for a time the appearance of unhappiness behind them.

    Letter 35 2009

  • At about half past six there appear'd a compleat semicircle or rainbow nearly in the West, which was evidently produced by the sun on the fog, the colour was pale, and not varied or mix'd.

    Letter 96 2009

  • Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appear'd in that narrow compass.

    David Hume Morris, William Edward 2009

  • Norris was also a follower of Descartes, whom Norris viewed as constructing “the only intelligible Frame of Natural Science that has yet appear'd in the World, and the only intire System that deserves the name of Philosophy” (500).

    Motherly Advice Trace Sheridan 2009

  • This Woman seem'd very prudent, vertuous and just in all her Actions, and educated the young Gentlewoman accordingly, that she appear'd a fine well behav'd

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • This Transaction, as well as that of my Woman before, were both very grievous to me; and did, as it were, take me down in my Wedding − shoes; but soon after appear'd a business more mortifying; for my Chamber − maid was found with child and lay'd it to my Husband, and produced a Promise of

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • There were many more strange and monstrous Appearances, not easily to be remember'd, much less to be describ'd; nor could any body conceive the true natural Cause of these Productions, whether a subterraneous Fire heated that Red Liquor, which appear'd like Blood,

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • The Lady and her Son were delighted beyond expression; our young Lady Gypsie was lost in a pleasing Confusion; a Mixture of Shame and Satisfaction appear'd in her; one for having committed such a ridiculous piece of Extravagance in leaving her Father's House, the other, for being discover'd to her Lover, and her good, after such a long

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

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