appulse

Example Sentences

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It was an appulse of the moon, visible in most of North America and parts of Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

There had been a total solar eclipse, new comets, unusual sunspots and the only perfect lunar appulse in four centuries.

From Time Magazine Archive

The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The appulse or near approach is but one of the methods by which the spiral nebul� may have come into existence.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck

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 Edgeworth, Maria