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ap·pa·ri·tion

 (ăp′ə-rĭsh′ən)
n.
1. A ghostly figure; a specter.
2. A sudden or unusual sight: "[The designer's] indoor-outdoor reversals and juxtapositions call forth a Magritte apparition beneath a Miami moon" (Herbert Muschamp).
3. The act of appearing; appearance.
[Middle English apparicioun, from Old French apparition, from Late Latin appāritiō, appāritiōn-, an appearance, from Latin appāritus, past participle of appārēre, to appear; see appear.]
ap′pa·ri′tion·al adj.

apparitional

(ˌæpəˈrɪʃənəl)
adj
of or relating to an apparition or apparitions; ghostly, spectral
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.apparitional - resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"
ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual
supernatural - not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"
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The emptiness of the space which he had expected to see occupied, was appalling, and he shrank down, sick and dizzy with the baffling apparitional past that thus vexed his consciousness.
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He summoned them before him in apparitional procession: Bernard Higginbotham arm in arm with Mr.
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People enough, first and last, had been in terror of apparitions, but who had ever before so turned the tables and become himself, in the apparitional world, an incalculable terror?
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