Appulse

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Appulse \Ap"pulse\ (?; 277), n. [L. appulsus, fr. appellere,
     appulsum, to drive to; ad + pellere to drive: cf. F.
     appulse.]
     1. A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the
        act of striking against.
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              In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs.
                                                    --Holder.
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     2. (Astron.) 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.
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