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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

APPAR'EL, n. [L. paro, apparo, to prepare; Heb. bara]
1. Clothing; vesture; garments; dress.
2. External habiliments or decorations; appearance; as, religion appears in the natural apparel of simplicity.
Glorious in apparel. Isaiah 63.
3. The furniture of a ship, as sails, rigging, anchors, etc.
APPAR'EL, v.t.
1. To dress or clothe.
They who are gorgeously appareled are in kings court.
Luke 7.
2. To adorn with dress.
She did apparel her apparel.
3. To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to cover, as with garments; as, trees appareled with flowers; or a garden with verdure.
4. To furnish with external apparatus; as ships appareled for sea.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: clothing in general; "she was refined in her choice of apparel"; "he always bought his clothes at the same store"; "fastidious about his dress" [syn: apparel, wearing apparel, dress, clothes] v
1: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel] [ant: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress]

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb (-eled or -elled; -eling or -elling) Etymology: Middle English appareillen, from Anglo-French apparailler to prepare, from Vulgar Latin *appariculare, from Latin apparare Date: 14th century 1. to put clothes on ; dress 2. adorn, embellish <accused of appareling the truth> II. noun Date: 14th century 1. the equipment (as sails and rigging) of a ship 2. personal attire ; clothing 3. something that clothes or adorns <the bright apparel of spring>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 formal clothing, dress. 2 embroidered ornamentation on some ecclesiastical vestments. --v.tr. (apparelled, apparelling; US appareled, appareling) archaic clothe. Etymology: ME aparailen (v.) f. OF apareillier f. Rmc appariculare (unrecorded) make equal or fit, ult. f. L par equal

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Apparel Ap*par"el, n. [OE. apparel, apareil, OF. apareil, appareil, preparation, provision, furniture, OF. apareiller to match, prepare, F. appareiller; OF. a (L. ad) + pareil like, similar, fr. LL. pariculus, dim. of L. par equal. See Pair.] 1. External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. --Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. --Tatler. 2. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments. 3. (Naut.) The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc. Syn: Dress; clothing; vesture; garments; raiment; garb; costume; attire; habiliments.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Apparel Ap*par"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appareled, or Apparelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Appareling, or Apparelling.] [OF. apareiller.] 1. To make or get (something) ready; to prepare. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. Ships . . . appareled to fight. --Hayward. 3. To dress or clothe; to attire. They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. --Luke vii. 25. 4. To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. --Wordsworth.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Apparel means clothes, especially formal clothes worn on an important occasion. (mainly AM FORMAL) Women's apparel is offered in petite, regular, and tall models. = clothing

Easton's Bible Dictionary

In Old Testament times the distinction between male and female attire was not very marked. The statute forbidding men to wear female apparel (Deut. 22:5) referred especially to ornaments and head-dresses. Both men and women wore (1) an under garment or tunic, which was bound by a girdle. One who had only this tunic on was spoken of as "naked" (1 Sam. 19:24; Job 24:10; Isa. 20:2). Those in high stations sometimes wore two tunics, the outer being called the "upper garment" (1 Sam. 15:27; 18:4; 24:5; Job 1:20). (2.) They wore in common an over-garment ("mantle," Isa. 3:22; 1 Kings 19:13; 2 Kings 2:13), a loose and flowing robe. The folds of this upper garment could be formed into a lap (Ruth 3:15; Ps. 79:12; Prov. 17:23; Luke 6:38). Generals of armies usually wore scarlet robes (Judg. 8:26; Nah. 2:3). A form of conspicuous raiment is mentioned in Luke 20:46; comp. Matt. 23:5.

Priests alone wore trousers. Both men and women wore turbans. Kings and nobles usually had a store of costly garments for festive occasions (Isa. 3:22; Zech. 3:4) and for presents (Gen. 45:22; Esther 4:4; 6:8, 11; 1 Sam. 18:4; 2 Kings 5:5; 10:22). Prophets and ascetics wore coarse garments (Isa. 20:2; Zech. 13:4; Matt. 3:4).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a-par'-el: The English equivalent of six Hebrew and three Greek words, variously signifying all kinds of raiment, chiefly garments costly and beautiful: ornamental (2Sa 1:24); royal, as of Ahasuerus (Es 6:8), of Herod (Ac 12:21, esthes); of kings' daughters (2Sa 13:18); priestly (Ezr 3:10); also mourning (2Sa 14:2). In 1Sa 17:38,39 "apparel" replaces "armor" of King James Version: "Saul clad David with his apparel," probably some close-fitting garment worn under the armor, or sometimes without it. Severe judgment was pronounced on Jewish princes who clothed themselves with "strange" (the King James Version), i.e. "with foreign apparel" (Ze 1:8; compare Isa 2:6-8). "Modest apparel" as against "costly raiment" is commended as suited to Christians (1Ti 2:9; himatismos, and katastole). Angels are robed in white apparel (Ac 1:10; compare Lu 24:4, "dazzling"). Fig. of the glorious and red (suggestive of the wine-press) apparel of the Messiah (Isa 63:1,2), and of "a meek and quiet spirit" (1Pe 3:4).

Dwight M. Pratt

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Clothes, clothing, dress, raiment, attire, array, costume, toilet, habit, habiliments, garb, guise, gear, garments, garmenture, vesture, vestments, robes, outfit, accoutrement, equipment, suit, trappings, wardrobe, rig. II. v. a. Dress, clothe, attire, habit, vest, array, robe, accoutre, equip, fit out, rig, rig out, trick out.

Moby Thesaurus

appoint, array, attire, bedizenment, clad, clothes, clothing, costume, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, enclothe, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliment, habiliments, habit, investiture, investment, linen, rags, raiment, robes, sportswear, style, things, threads, togs, toilette, trim, vestment, vesture, wear, wearing apparel