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verb

Appear v. i. (past & past part. appeared; pres. part. appearing)

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. "And God... said, Let... the dry land appear."

To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.

To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. "We must all appear before the judgment seat." "One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear."

To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." "Of their vain contest appeared no end."

To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. "They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast."

Synonyms: To seem; look. See Seem.

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"Appearing" Quotes from Famous Books

... the thoughts were, and directly spoken, the children gazed at him with set faces, not appearing to kindle with any understanding; and yet, after the manner of children, they were secreting a seed here and there, to germinate in their dark little minds later on, as in due time Hester discovered. She herself, seated at the harmonium, ...

— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... nature passing gradually from inanimate things through living things to living animals. He speaks of what is first in itself, first inherently, 'prior' in the logical sense because it is the goal and the completion of the thing, as appearing later in time. For instance, he believes that man can only find his real happiness and develop his real nature in the State, but the State appears later in time than the primitive associations of the household and ...

— Progress and History • Various

... have to remain a prisoner here, Thekla, I am afraid, almost as strictly as at Prague, for it would not do to risk the discovery that you are a girl by your appearing in the streets in daylight, and after dark the streets of the town, occupied by Wallenstein's soldiers, are no place for ...

— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty

... when the same infinity of change is carried out with vastness of object and space. The extreme of distance may appear at first monotonous; but the least examination will show it to be full of every kind of change—that its outlines are perpetually melting and appearing again—sharp here, vague there—now lost altogether, now just hinted and still confused among each other—and so forever in a state and necessity of change. Hence, wherever in a painting we have unvaried color extended even ...

— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin

... they appear, may be in fact reconcilable with the general functions of a being not malignant, and not evil in any sense, but simply obedient to superior commands: for none of us supposes, of course, that a "destroying angel" must be an evil spirit, though sometimes appearing in a dreadful relation of hostility to all parties (as in the case of David's punishment). But, waiving all these speculations, one thing is apparent, that the negative allowance, the toleration granted to ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

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