appulse
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There had been a total solar eclipse, new comets, unusual sunspots and the only perfect lunar appulse in four centuries.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an appulse of the moon, visible in most of North America and parts of Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Again the appulse, again the backward strain— Till ocean must have rest.
From Ride to the Lady And Other Poems by Helen Gray Cone
I felt the faint appulse of his, And leapt into the light!
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
I have heard, that if these sublime geniuses are awakened from their reveries by the appulse of external circumstances, they start, and exhibit all the perturbation and amazement of cataleptic patients.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 08 by Maria Edgeworth
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