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aperçu [Fr], rapid view; glance; general sketch; outline; summary.
apéritif [Fr], appetizer.
à perte [Fr], at a loss. —à perte de vue, beyond the range of vision;
hence, at random; farfetched.
aperto vivere voto [L], to live with unconcealed desire; have one's life
and progress an open book: Persius.
à peu de frais [Fr], at little cost; cheaply.
à peu près [Fr], nearly; almost.
a piacere [It], at pleasure; ad lib.: music.
à pied [Fr], on foot.
à pierre fendre [Fr], to split a stone; fig., with great intensity or rigor;
as, il gèle à pierre fendre, it is freezing extremely hard.
à plaisir [Fr], at one's ease; freely; designedly.
à plomb [Fr], plumb; perpendicularly; hence, with assurance.
aplomb [Fr], perpendicularity; equilibrium; hence, self-possession, assurance.
a pobreza no hay vergüenza [Sp], poverty has no shame.
a poco a poco [It], little by little; by degrees.
a poco pan, tomar primero [Sp], when there is little bread, take the
first slice; every man for himself.
άττόδοτε συν τα Καίσαρος Καίσαρι και τα τσΰ θεού τω θεώ [Gr; apodóte
oûn ta Kaísaros Kaísari kaì tà toû theoû tô theô], render therefore
unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things
that are God's: Matthew xxii. 21.
άττόδοτε ττάσι τας όφειλάς [Gr; apodóte pási tàs opheilás], render to
all their dues: Romans xiii. 7.
à point [Fr], in time; just in time; opportunely; apropos; to a nicety;
to a turn. —à point nommé, at the appointed time. —cuit à point,
cooked to a turn.
apologia pro vita sua [L], a defense of the conduct (or a justification)
of his life: Cardinal Newman (title of his autobiography).
apopo [Maori], tomorrow: New Zealand.
a posse ad esse [L], from possibility to realization (or reality).
a posteriori [L], (reasoning) from effect to cause; inductive; empirical.
apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto [L], scattered here and there,
they are seen swimming in the seething waters: often applied in
criticism of a work where the few thoughts of value are engulfed in
a watery waste of verbiage: Virgil.
apparatus belli [L], material (or munitions) of war.
apparatus criticus [L], information added to a text to help scholars.
appartement [Fr], an apartment or suite of rooms; a flat.
appassionato [It], with passion, in an impassioned style: music.
appel [Fr], a call; challenge; fencing, a stamp of the foot, as in commencing
an attack.
appeler les choses par leur nom [Fr], to call things by their names.