Appointment television
noun
televison programmes that people set aside time to watch
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- Appomattox
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- Appomattox court house
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noun the production of objects by apparently supernatural means at a spiritualists’ seance the objects produced (obsolete) bearing; demeanour (pl) (obsolete) things brought as offerings; revenues Historical Examples The Hindoo control then announced that an apport would be brought, and asked that water be placed in a tin basin. The Wanderings of a Spiritualist Arthur […]