Appulse(n.) A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.
Appulse(n.) The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.
Appulsion(n.) A driving or striking against; an appulse.
Appulsive(a.) Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets.
Appulsively(adv.) By appulsion.
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