Word Finder - apparition

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An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

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The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.

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An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.

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The attic is haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.

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The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.

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A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.

Suddenly, a terrifying apparition appeared.

A ghostly apparition of a woman has been seen near the tracks in the evening.

In one example, a person enters a dark doorway, turns a corner and there's an apparition immediately approaching the camera.

Walk the decks between two and four o'clock in the morning and there's a good chance you'll see an apparition or two.

During the party, we saw a ghostly apparition, roughly the height of Maureen.

Martin's apparition then disappeared, leaving both of them momentarily stunned.

The most popular ghost is Pinky, an apparition that gives off a glowing pink aura.

Around 1928 an apparition of an ancient Egyptian priestess was reported, and a newspaper reward for an overnight stay went unclaimed.

Seeing then that the troops before him could hold their own, Ladmirault continued his preparations for his counterstroke, and Cissey's division had begun to move into its prescribed alignment, facing towards Vionville, when the sudden apparition of a closed mass of Prussian troops detaching itself from the low dust-cloud of a slow-moving infantry column, and forming to the south of Mars-la-Tour, again arrested his attention.

It has been said that Daniel Defoe wrote his fiction of Mrs Veal (A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal), who came from the other world to recommend the perusal of Drelincourt on Death, for the express purpose of promoting the sale of an English translation of the Consolations; Defoe's contribution is added to the fourth edition of the translation (1706).

Most people who have seen this apparition believe that she was one of the mistreated residents who was likely bound or restrained too tightly by her wrists and ankles during the time the building was used as a geriatric facility.

The apparition was first spotted by security guards on closed circuit television footage during an investigation into who was leaving one of the palace doors open.

Have you ever noticed how most apparition photos have poor lighting?

But I dunno about restored, ' said the apparition; ' blow THAT!

Serious students in Portugal and abroad welcomed the book as an historical work of the first rank, for its evidence of careful research, its able marshalling of facts, its learning and its painful accuracy, while the sculptural simplicity of the style and the correctness of the diction have made it a Portuguese classic. The first volume, however, gave rise to a celebrated controversy, because Herculano had reduced the famous battle of Ourique, which was supposed to have seen the birth of the Portuguese monarchy, to the dimensions of a mere skirmish, and denied the apparition of Christ to King Affonso, a fable first circulated in the 15th century.

As they played back the recorded video, an apparition appeared and floated around in a circle.

When an apparition forms, it's usually extremely faint and blends in well with the background.

This impressive footage displays an apparition taking shape in the lower left corner of the video before fading as it travels across the room.

This video was captured as part of an investigation, and the apparition that hobbles toward the camera and off to the right is obviously partially transparent.

For example, you may need to watch a video a few times before you recognize the faint mist in the shape of an apparition standing in the doorway.

A human shape immediately appears behind a window, or an apparition in a dark room is very clearly defined and unquestioningly material.

Ectoplasm is a word often used to describe a gel-like residue reportedly found at the site of an apparition or paranormal event.

But a very slight relative displacement will cause the apparition of the odd spectra.

In the 8th century an oratory was established there by St Aubert, bishop of Avranches, in obedience to the commands of an apparition of St Michael.

Henry made a vain effort to prevent, or to postpone, the outbreak of hostilities; but urged on by his French ally and his queen, James declared for war, in spite of the counsels of some of his advisers, and (it is said) of the warning of an apparition.

Maunder and Mrs Maunder found that different spots in the same zone differ more than do the means for different zones, while a long-lived spot settles down to give more consistent results than are furnished by spots of one apparition.

However vividly Howie dreamed, or whatever he had; a vision or an apparition, we all know his mind conjured it up.

Which theater is haunted by the apparition of a nun?

They included a shot of the ghostly apparition, which appears to be checking the cellar with a lamp.

Maybe this strange apparition brought some kind of hope.

The first apparition which appears to thee is the image of the master ' .

Reception Corridor area The same apparition of a little boy was seen by Jenny [Manager] in this area.

The third apparition tells him " Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.

But he found a stepmother there; and this apparition on his father's hearth at first rather appalled him.

While sharing the opinion of Tycho as to the origin of such bodies by condensation of nebulous matter from the Milky Way, he attached a mystical signification to the coincidence in time and place of the sidereal apparition with a triple conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

In Wales its counterpart was Gwyllgi, "the Dog of Darkness," a frightful apparition of a mastiff with baleful breath and blazing red eyes.

Martin 's apparition then disappeared, leaving both of them momentarily stunned.

The apparition threaded the beads of the rosary through her fingers without moving her lips.

The third apparition tells him Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.

Throughout the history of the lore surrounding the apparition, most people have believed that a sighting of the Black Dog foretold of misfortune, death of a loved one, or the death of the person who saw the creature.

Dog information websites are littered with references with modern day encounters with the apparition.

Admittedly, there are few things in the world of paranormal investigations that compare to seeing a full-bodied apparition.

In a second incident, a tower guard even attempted to stab the apparition only to feint from fear.

In all cases, witnesses recognize the apparition as Anne Boleyn, the famous wife of King Henry VIII.

Some experiencers even report hearing conversations that are later confirmed; in other cases people at remote locations witness seeing an out of body experiencer's apparition.

These stories also suggest that many apparition sightings of people who are still alive could potentially be a result of that person having some form of out of body experience.

Guests and staff recognize Sallie when the see a female apparition dressed in a bandana and long gray skirt.

Guests report seeing his apparition entering his suite through the wall where the door used to be.

If you can recreate the apparition under similar conditions, you can rule out paranormal activity.

Other park rangers and visitors tell tales of the apparition appearing on dark nights always accompanied by cries and groans.