Word of the Day:
appulse
What It Means
An energetic movement towards or against something; a push, a strike.
A close approach of two heavenly bodies; a conjunction or occultation.
Appulse in Context
“[T]he vivacity of these trains of ideas, passing in the imagination, is greatly increased by […] their not being disturbed or dissevered either by the appluses of external bodies, as in surprize; or by our voluntary exertions in comparing them with our previous knowledge of things, as in reasoning...”
Did You Know?
From Latin appulsus.
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