apparitional








noun

  1. a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith: a ghostly apparition at midnight.
  2. anything that appears, especially something remarkable or startling: the surprising apparition of cowboys in New York City.
  3. an act of appearing; manifestation.
  4. Astronomy. the appearance or time when a comet, especially a periodic one, is visible: the 1986 apparition of Halley’s comet.

noun

  1. an appearance, esp of a ghost or ghostlike figure
  2. the figure so appearing; phantom; spectre
  3. the act of appearing or being visible
n.

c.1500, “unclosing” (of Heaven), from Anglo-French aparicion, Old French apparition, aparoison (15c.), used in reference to the Epiphany (revealing of Christ child to the Wise Men), from Late Latin apparitionem (nominative apparitio) “an appearance,” also “attendants,” in classical Latin “service, servants,” noun of action from past participle stem of apparere “appear” (see appear). Meaning “ghost” first recorded c.1600; the shade of sense differentiation between appearance and apparition is that the latter tends to be unexpected or startling.

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