APOPHYLLITE, a mineral belonging to the zeolite family. See MINERALOGY.

APOPLEXY (ἀπόπληξις), a distemper in which the patient is suddenly deprived of all his senses, and of voluntary motion.

APORIA (ἀπόρια), a figure in Rhetoric, by which the speaker shows that he doubts where to begin for the multi-

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Apostle. tude of matter, or what to say in some strange and ambiguous thing, and, as it were, argues the case with himself.