Which apparition, it seems, was you.
Tatler.
3. An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom. "The heavenly bands . . . a glorious apparition." Milton.
I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
That shapes this monstrous apparition.
Shak.
4. (Astron.) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation.
Circle of perpetual apparition. See under Circle.
Ap`pa*ri"tion*al (&?;), a. Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. "An apparitional soul." Tylor.
Ap*par"i*tor (&?;), n. [L., fr. apparere. See Appear.] 1. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.
De Quincey.
2. (Law) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. Bouvier.
||Ap`pau`mé" (&?;), n. [F. appaumé; &?; (l. ad) + paume the palm, fr. L. palma.] (Her.) A hand open and extended so as to show the palm.
Ap*pay" (&?;), v. t. [OF. appayer, apaier, LL. appacare, appagare, fr. L. ad + pacare to pacify, pax, pacis, peace. See Pay, Appease.] To pay; to satisfy or appease. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
Ap*peach" (&?;), v. t. [OE. apechen, for empechen, OF. empeechier, F. empêcher, to hinder. See Impeach.] To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach. [Obs.]
And oft of error did himself appeach.
Spenser.
Ap*peach"er, n. An accuser. [Obs.] Raleigh.