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apery|ˈeɪpərɪ|
[f. ape n. + -ry, or aper + -y. In sense treated partly like mocker-y, partly like fine-ry, partly like rook-ery.]
1. The practice of an aper; aping; pretentious or silly mimicry.
1616Hayward Sanct. Troubled Soule ii. §6 (1620) 133 An outward Apery of Religion. c1700Gentlem. Instr. (1732) 152 Hate..Hypocrisy as Poison, and a base Complaisance as meer Apery. 1844Marg. Fuller Woman in 19th C. (1862) 145 Women, dressed..in apery, or as it looked, in mockery of European fashions.
2. concr. A pretentious imitation. rare.
1812Colman Two Parsons xxxiv, His rooms were crowded with Etruscan aperies.
3. A silly or apish action or performance.
1851Carlyle Sterling iii. iii. (1872) 195 The..sickly superstitious aperies and impostures of the time. 1858― Fredk. Gt. I. iii. xx. 265 A young Fritzchen's cradle, who..will speak and do aperies one day.
4. A collection or colony of apes. rare.
1862Kingsley Water Bab. in Macm. Mag. Nov. 8 More apish than all the apes of all aperies. |