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Appulse   Listen
noun
Appulse  n.  
1.
A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against. "In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs."
2.
(Astron.) 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.





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"Appulse" Quotes from Famous Books



... genius, great as 'tis, Could urge me out of night. I felt the faint appulse of his, And ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce


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