appulse

Example Sentences

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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 Cone, Helen Gray

I felt the faint appulse of his, And leapt into the light!

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose

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