Apprised vs Felt - What's the difference?
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(apprise)
To notify, or to make aware; to inform.
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
* Shakespeare, King Lear , act 4, scene 6:
A hat made of felt.
(obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
* 1707 , John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry :
To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
To cover with, or as if with, felt.
(feel)
That has been experienced or perceived.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 257:
Apprised is a related term of felt.
As verbs the difference between apprised and felt
is that apprised is (apprise) while felt is to fear something.apprised
English
Verb
(head)Synonyms
* (informed)apprise
English
Verb
(appris)Synonyms
* keep (someone)See also
* appraiseAnagrams
* English words affected by confusion ----felt
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) felt, from (etyl) ), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.Noun
(wikipedia felt) (-)- It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt .
- To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Matthew Hale)
- to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.
