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Annuity
ANNU'ITY, noun [See Annual.]
A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life or for ever; an annual income, charged on the person of the grantor; or an annual allowance. Governments often borrow money upon annuities, that is, for a certain sum advanced on loan, the government contracts to pay the lender a specific sum, for life, or for a term of years. The stock created by such loans is transferable.
Annul
ANNUL', verb transitive [Latin ad nullum, to nothing.]
1. To make void; to nullify; to abrogate; to abolish; used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by competent authority.
2. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. [Not is much use.]
Annular
AN'NULAR, adjective [Latin annulus, a ring, from Celtic ain, a circle, and ul, young, small; annulus, a little circle.]
Having the form of a ring; pertaining to a ring.
Annular crystal is when a hexahedral prism has six, or an octahedral prism eight marginal faces, disposed in a ring about each base; or when these prisms are truncated on all their terminal edges.
Annulary
AN'NULARY, adjective Having the form of a ring.
Annulated
AN'NULATED, adjective Furnished with rings, or circles, like rings; having belts.
Annulet
AN'NULET, noun [Latin annulus, a ring.]
In architecture, a small square member in the Doric capital, under the quarter round; also a narrow flat molding, which is common to many places, as in the bases or capitals; called also a fillet, or listil, or cincture, or a list, timea, eye brow or square rabbit.
In heraldry, a little circle, borne as a charge is coats of arms; formerly reputed a mark of nobility and jurisdiction; it being the custom of prelates to receive their investiture per baculum et annulum, by staff and ring. It denotes also strength and eternity, by its circular form. Among the Romans, it represented liberty and distinction of rank. It denotes also difference, or mark of distinction, which the fifth brother of a family ought to bear on his coat of arms.
Annulled
ANNUL'LED, participle passive Made void; abrogated.
Annulling
ANNUL'LING, participle present tense Abrogating; abolishing.
Annulment
ANNUL'MENT, noun The act of annulling.
Annumerate
ANNU'MERATE, verb transitive [Latin annumero, of ad and numero, to numer, from numerus, number. See Number.]
To add to a former number; to unite to something before mentioned.
Annumeration
ANNUMERA'TION, noun Addition to a former number.
Annunciate
ANNUN'CIATE, verb transitive [See Announce.] To bring tidings; to announce.
Annunciation
ANNUNCIA'TION, noun
1. An announcing; the tidings brought by the angel to Mary, of the incarnation of Christ. Also the day celebrated by the church, in memory of the angel's salutation of the blessed virgin, which is the 25th of March. The Jews give the title to a part of the ceremony of the passover.
2. Proclamation; promulgation.
Annunciator
ANNUNCIA'TOR, noun One who announces; an officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business was to inform the people of the festivals which were to be celebrated.
Anodyne
AN'ODYNE, [Gr. pain.]
Any medicine which allays pain, or causes sleep, as an opiate, paregoric, narcotic, etc.
AN'ODYNE, adjective Assuaging pain; causing sleep, or insensibility.
Anoint
ANOINT', verb transitive [Latin ungo.]
1. To pour oil upon; to smear or rub over with oil or unctuous substances; also to spread over, as oil. We say, the man anoints another, or the oil anoints him.
2. To consecrate by unction, or the use of oil.
Thou shalt anoint the altar, and sanctify it. .
3. To smear or daub.
He anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay. .
4. To prepare, in allusion to the consecrating use of oil.
ANOINT the shield. .
To anoint the head with oil, . seems to signify to communicate the consolations of the Holy Spirit.
The use of oil in consecrations, was of high antiquity. Kings, prophets and priests were set apart or consecrated to their offices by the use of oil. Hence the peculiar application of the term anointed to Jesus Christ.
Anointed
ANOINT'ED, participle passive Smeared or rubbed with oil; set apart; consecrated with oil.
ANOINT'ED, noun The Messiah, or Son of God, consecrated to the great office of Redeemer; called the Lord's anointed Cyrus is also called the Lord's anointed .
Anointer
ANOINT'ER, noun One who anoints.
Anointing
ANOINT'ING, participle present tense Smearing with oil; pouring on oil, or other oleaginous substance; consecrating.
ANOINT'ING, noun The act of smearing with oil; a consecrating.
Anointment
ANOINT'MENT, noun The act of anointing, or state of being anointed.
Anole
ANO'LE, noun A species of lizard in the W. Indies, of a yellowish color, having several blue and green stripes running down its back.
Anomaliped
ANOM'ALIPED, adjective [Gr. inequality and Latin pes, foot.]
An epithet given to fowls, whose middle toe is united to the exterior by three phalanges, and to the interior by one only.
ANOM'ALIPED, noun An anomalous footed fowl. [See the adjective.]
Anomalism
ANOM'ALISM, noun An anomaly; a deviation from rule.
Anomalistic
ANOMALIS'TIC,
ANOMALIS'TICAL, adjective Irregular; departing from common or established rules.
In astronomy, the anomalistic year is the time in which the earth passes through her orbit, which is longer than the tropical year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.
Anomalistical
ANOMALIS'TICAL, a. Irregular; departing from common or established rules. In astronomy, the anomalistic year is the time in which the earth passes through her orbit, which is longer than the tropical year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.
Anomalous
ANOM'ALOUS, adjective Irregular; deviating from a general rule, method or analogy; applied, in grammar, to words which deviate from the common rules of inflection; and in astronomy, to the seemingly irregular motions of the planets; but applied also generally to whatever is irregular; as, an anomalous character; anomalous pronunciation.
Anomalously
ANOM'ALOUSLY, adverb Irregularly; in a manner different from common rule, method or analogy.
Anomaly
ANOM'ALY, noun [Gr. inequality, equal, similar.]
1. Irregularity; deviation from the common rule; thus oxen, the plural of ox, is an anomaly in grammar, as the regular plural would be oxes.
2. In astronomy, an irregularity in the motion of a planet, whereby it deviates from the aphelion or apogee.
3. In music, a false scale or interval.
Anomeans
ANO'MEANS, noun [Gr. dissimilar.]
In church history, the pure Arians, as distinguished from the Semi-Arians.
Anomia
ANO'MIA, noun [Gr. rule.]
A genus of bivalve shells, so called from their unequal valves; the beaked cockle.
Anomite
AN'OMITE, noun A fossil shell of the genus anomia.
Anomorhomboid
ANOMORHOM'BOID, noun [Gr irregular, and of a rhomboidal figure.]
A genus os spars, pellucid, and crystaline, of no determinate form externally, but breaking into regular rhomboidal masses. The species are five, mostly of a white color.
Anomy
AN'OMY, noun [Gr.] A violation of law. [Rarely used.]
Anon
ANON', adverb
1. Quickly; without intermission:soon; immediately.
The same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it. .
2. Sometimes; now and then; at other times; accompanied with ever, ever and anon
Anonymous
ANON'YMOUS, a [Latin anonymus; Gr. name. See Name.]
Nameless; wanting a name; without the real name of the author; as, an anonymous pamphlet.
Anonymously
ANON'YMOUSLY, adverb Without a name.
Anoplother
AN'OPLOTHER,
ANOPLOTHE'RIUM, noun [Gr. a beast.]
This is the name which Cuvier has given to a genus of animals, whose bones are found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; a genus now extinct.
Anoplotherium
ANOPLOTHE'RIUM, n. [Gr. a beast.] This is the name which Cuvier has given to a genus of animals, whose bones are found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; a genus now extinct.
Anopsy
ANOP'SY, noun [Gr. sight.] Want of sight; invision. [Little used.]
Anorexy
AN'OREXY, noun [Gr. appetite.
Want of appetite, without a lothing of food.
Another
ANOTH'ER, adjective [an, or one and other.]
1. Not the same; different; as, we have one form of government; France, another
2. One more, in addition to a former number, indefinitely; as, grant one request, they will ask another favor, another and another
3. Any other; any different person, indefinitely; as, 'Let another praise thee and not thy own mouth.' This word is often used without a noun, becoming a substitute for the name of the person or thing; as in the last example. It is also much used in opposition to one, as in the first and second passages cited. It is also frequently used with one, in a reciprocal sense; as, 'love one another; ' 'bear one another's burdens; ' that is, love one, or let one love another
Another-Gaines
ANOTH'ER-GAINES, adverb Of another kind. obsolete
Another-Gates
ANOTH'ER-GATES, adverb Of another sort. obsolete
Another-Guise
ANOTH'ER-GUISE, adjective Of a different kind; different. This is a vulgar word, and usually contracted into other guess.
Anotta
ANOT'TA, noun An elegant red color, formed from the pellicles or pulp of the seeds of the bixa, a tree common in South America. This is called also Terra Orleana and Roco. The annotta is made by steeping the seeds for seven or eight days, pounding them to separate the red skins, then straining the liquor, boiling it, taking off the scum which is the coloring matter, then boiling it to a due consistence, and making it into balls.
Ansated
AN'SATED, adjective [Latin ansatus, from ansa, a handle.]
Having a handle or handles, or something in the form of handles.
Anser
AN'SER, noun [Latin a goose.]
1. In zoology, the name of the goose, whether tame or wild. The domestic goose is the gray-lag or wild goose, domesticated.
2. In astronomy, a small star, in the milky way, between the swan and eagle.
Anserine
AN'SERINE, adjective [Latin anserinum, from anser, a goose.]
1. Resembling the skin of a goose; uneven; as, an anserine skin.
2. Pertaining to the ansers.
Ansers
AN'SERS, noun In Linne's system, the third order of aves or fowls, whose characteristics are a smooth bill, broadest at the point, covered with a smooth skin, and furnished with teeth. The tongue is fleshy, and the toes are webbed or palmated. It includes all the web-footed water fowls, with legs and feet adapted to swimming.
Anslaight
AN'SLAIGHT, noun [See Slay.] An attack; an affray. [Not in use.]
Answer
'ANSWER, verb transitive ansur.
1. To speak in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration or argument of another person; as, 'I have called and ye have not answered.' 'He answered the question or the argument.' This may be in agreement and confirmation of what was said, or in opposition to it.
2. To be equivalent to; to be adequate to, or sufficient to accomplish the object. 'Money answereth all things, ' noting, primarily, return.
3. To comply with, fulfill, pay or satisfy; as, he answered my order; to answer a debt.
4. To act in return, or opposition; as, the enemy answered our fire by a shower of grape shot.
5. To bear a due proportion to; to be equal or adequate; to suit; as, a weapon does not answer the size and strength of the man using it; the success does not answer our expectation.
6. To perform what was intended; to accomplish; as, the measure does not answer its end; it does not answer the purpose.
7. To be opposite to; to face; as, fire answers fire.
8. To write in reply; to reply to another writing, by way of explanation, refutation or justification; as, to answer a pamphlet.
9. To solve, as a proposition or problem in mathematics.
This word may be applied to a great variety of objects, expressing the idea of a return; as the notes, or sounds of birds, and other animals; an echo, etc.
'ANSWER, verb intransitive
1. To reply; to speak by way of return; as, there is none to answer .
2. To be accountable, liable or responsible; followed by to before the person, and for before the thing for which one is liable; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money entrusted to his care; we can not answer to God for our offenses.
3. To vindicate, or give a justificatory account of; followed by for; as, a man cannot answer for his friend.
4. To correspond with; to suit with; followed by to.
In water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. .
5. To act reciprocally, as the strings of an instrument to the hand.
6. To stand as opposite or correlative; as, allegiance in the subject answers to protection on the part of the prince or government.
7. To return, as sound reverberated; to echo.
The noise seems to fly away, and answer at a great distance.
8. To succeed; to effect the object intended; to have a good effect; as, gypsum answers as a manure on a dry soil.
ANSWER, noun
1. A reply; that which is said, in return to a call, a question, an argument or an allegation.
A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov.
I called him, but he gave me no answer Song of Solomon 5:6.
2. An account to be rendered to justice.
He will call you to so hot an answer for it.
3. In law, a counter-statement of facts, in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged.
4. A writing, pamphlet or book, in reply to another.
5. A reverberated sound; an echo.
6. A return; that which is sent in consequence of some petition, as a blessing is sent in answer to prayer.
7. A solution, the result of a mathematical operation.
8. The reply of a legislative body or house to an address or message of the supreme magistrate.
Answer-Jobber
'ANSWER-JOBBER, noun One who makes a business of writing answers.
Answerable
'ANSWERABLE, adjective
1. That may be answered; that to which a reply may be made, usually implying that the answer may be satisfactory; as, an answerable argument.
2. Obliged to give an account, or liable to be called to account; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal.
3. Obliged or liable to pay, indemnify or make good; as, to be answerable for a debt or for damages.
4. Correspondent; agreeing with; in conformity with; as, the features expressed in a picture are answerable to the original.
5. Suitable; suited; proportionate; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
6. Equal; correspondent; proportionate; as, the success is answerable to my desires.
Answerableness
ANSWERABLENESS, noun The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
Answerably
ANSWERABLY, adverb In due proportion, correspondence or conformity; suitably; as, continents have rivers answerably larger than isles.
Answered
ANSWERED, participle passive Replied to; fulfilled; paid; complied with; accomplished; solved; confuted.
Answerer
ANSWERER, noun One who answers; he or that which makes a return to what another has spoken; he who writes an answer.
Answering
'ANSWERING, participle present tense Replying; corresponding to; fulfilling; solving; succeeding; reverberating; confuting.
Ant
AN'T, in old authors, is a contraction of an it, that is if it. [See An.]
ANT, in our vulgar dialect, as in the phrases, I ant you ant he ant we ant etc., is undoubtedly a contraction of the Danish er, ere, the substantive verb in the present tense of the Indicative Mode. These phrases are doubtless legitimate remains of the Gothic dialect.
'ANT, noun
An emmet; a pismire. Ants constitute a genus of insects of the hymenopteral order, of which the characteristics are; a small scale between the breast and belly, with a joint so deep that the animal appears as if almost cut in two. The females, and the neuter or working ants, which have no sexual characteristics, are furnished with a hidden sting; and both males and females have wings, but the neuters have none. These insects meet together in companies, and maintain a sort of republic. They raise hillocks of earth, in which they live. In these there are paths, leading to the repositories of their provisions. The large black ants, in the warm climates of America, to avoid the effects of great rains, build large nests on trees, of light earth, roundish and plastered smooth.
Ant-Bear
'ANT-BEAR or 'ANT-EATER, noun A quadruped that feeds upon ants. This animal has no teeth, but a snout or muzzle, with a long cylindrical tongue. the body is covered with long hair. There are several species, constituting the genus, myrmecophaga, ant eaters.
Ant-Eater
'ANT-BEAR or 'ANT-EATER, noun A quadruped that feeds upon ants. This animal has no teeth, but a snout or muzzle, with a long cylindrical tongue. the body is covered with long hair. There are several species, constituting the genus, myrmecophaga, ant eaters.
Ant-Eggs
'ANT-EGGS, noun Little white balls found in the hillocks of ants, usually supposed to be their eggs, but found on examination to be the young brood, in their first state. They are vermicules, wrapped in a film, composed of a silky substance spun like a spider's web.
Ant-Hill
'ANT-HILL, noun A little tumulus or hillock, formed by ants, for their habitation.
Anta
AN'TA, noun In ancient architecture, a square column, at the corner of a building; a pilaster; written also ante.
Antacid
ANTAC'ID, noun [anti and acid.]
In pharmacy, an alkali, or a remedy for sourness or acidity; better written anti-acid.
Antacrid
ANTAC'RID, noun [anti and acrid.] That which corrects acrimony; better written anti-acrid.
Antagonism
ANTAG'ONISM, noun Opposition of action; counteraction of things or principles.
Antagonist
ANTAG'ONIST, noun [Gr. against, and a champion. See Act and Agony.]
1. One who contends with another in combat; used primarily in the Grecian games. An adversary.
2. An opponent in controversy.
3. In anatomy, a muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.
ANTAG'ONIST, adjective Counteracting; opposing; combating; as, an antagonist muscle.
Antagonistic
ANTAGONIS'TIC, adjective Opposing in combat; contending against.
Antagonize
ANTAG'ONIZE, verb intransitive To contend against; to act in opposition; to oppose in argument.
Antagony
ANTAG'ONY, noun Contest; opposition [Not used.]
Antalgic
ANTAL'GIC, adjective [Gr. against, and pain.] Alleviating pain; anodyne.
Antanaclasis
ANTANACLA'SIS, noun [Gr. a driving back.]
1. In rhetoric, a figure, which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, whilst we live, let us live. Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.
2. It is also a repetition of words, beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, shall that heart, (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them, ) shall that heart, etc.
Antanagoge
ANTANAGO'GE, noun antanago'gy. [Gr. against, and a taking up.]
In rhetoric, a figure which consists in replying to an adversary, by way of recrimination; as, when the accusation of one party is unanswerable, the accused person charges him with the same or other crime.
Antaphrodisiac
ANTAPHRODIS'IAC, adjective [Gr. against, and venereal, from Venus.]
Antivenereal; having the quality of extinguishing or lessening venereal desire.
ANTAPHRODIS'IAC, noun A medicine that lessens or extinguishes the venereal appetite.
Antaphroditic
ANTAPHRODIT'IC, adjective [Gr. See the preceding words.] Antivenereal, abating the venereal appetite, or efficacious against the venereal disease.
ANTAPHRODIT'IC, noun A medicine which abates the venereal appetite, or is good against the venereal disease.
Antapoplectic
ANTAPOPLEC'TIC, adjective Good against apoplexy.
Antarctic
ANTARC'TIC, adjective [Gr. against, and the bear, a northern constellation.]
Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a lesser circle, distant from the pole 23 degrees 28'. Thus we say the antarctic pole, antarctic circle, or antarctic region.
Antares
ANTA'RES, noun The name of a star of the first magnitude, called also the scorpion's heart. Its longitude is 60 degrees 13' 14' of Sagittarius; and its latitude 4 degrees 31' 26 ' South.
Antarthritic
ANTARTHRIT'IC, noun A remedy which cures or alleviates the gout.
ANTARTHRIT'IC, adjective [Gr against, and gout.] Counteracting the gout.
Antasthmatic
ANTASTHMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. against, and asthma.] Opposing the asthma.
ANTASTHMAT'IC, noun A remedy for the asthma.
Ante
AN'TE. A Latin preposition, Gr.; much used in the composition of English words, especially in words from the Latin and Greek languages. It signifies before in place, in front; hence opposite, contrary; and figuratively, before in time. The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, and the Greek, in that of opposite, or in the place of.
AN'TE or AN'TA, noun A pilaster. In heraldry, ante denotes that the pieces are let into one another, in the manner there expressed, as by dove tails, rounds, swallow tails, etc.
Anteact
AN'TEACT, noun [ante and act.] A preceding act.
Antecedaneous
ANTECEDA'NEOUS, adjective [Infra.] Antecedent; preceding in time.
Antecede
ANTECE'DE, verb transitive [ante and cedo, to go. See Cede.] To go before in time; to precede.
Antecedence
ANTECE'DENCE, noun The act or state of going before in time; precedence. In astronomy, an apparent motion of a planet towards the west, or contrary to the order of the signs.
Antecedent
ANTECE'DENT, adjective Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the deluge.
ANTECE'DENT, noun That which goes before in time; hence in writings, that which precedes in place. In grammar, the noun to which a relative or other substitute refers; as, Solomon was the prince, who built the Temple. In logic, the first of two propositions in an enthymeme, or argument of two propositions; as, if the sun is fixed, the earth must move. Here the first and conditional proposition is the antecedent; the second, the consequent.
In mathematics, the first of two terms of a ratio, or that which is compared with the other.
Antecedently
ANTECE'DENTLY, adverb Previously; at a time preceding.
Antecessor
ANTECES'SOR, noun [Latin whence ancestor. See Antecede.]
1. One who goes before; a leader; a principal. It was formerly a title given to those who excelled in any science; to professors of civil law; and in the Universities of France, the teachers of law take the title in their theses.
2. One that possessed land before the present possessor.
Antechamber
AN'TECHAMBER, noun [Ante, before, and chamber.]
A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment to which it leads, and in which persons wait for audience.
Antechapel
ANTECHAP'EL, noun The part of the chapel through which is the passage to the choir or body of it.
Antecian
ANTE'CIAN, noun [Gr. opposite, and to dwell; Latin antaci.]
In geography, the antecians are those inhabitants of the earth, under the same meridian, and at the same distance from the equator, but, on opposite sides, one party north, the other south. They have the same hours of day and night, but different seasons; it being winter with one, when it is summer with the other.
Antecursor
ANTECURS'OR, noun [Latin ante, before, and cursor, a runner, from curro, to run. See Course.]
One who runs before; a forerunner. In the Roman armies, the antecursors were a body of horse detached to obtain intelligence, get provisions, etc., for the main body.
Antedate
AN'TEDATE, noun [Infra.] Prior date; a date antecedent to another.
AN'TEDATE, verb transitive [Latin ante, and datum, given. See Date.]
1. To date before the true time; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to express a date anterior to the true time of its execution.
2. To anticipate; to take before the true time.
And antedate the bliss above.
Antediluvial
ANTEDILU'VIAL,
ANTEDILU'VIAN, adjective [Latin ante and diluvium, a flood. See Lave.]
Before the flood, or deluge, in Noah's time; existing, happening, or relating to what happened before the deluge.
ANTEDILU'VIAN, noun One who live before the deluge.
Antediluvian
ANTEDILU'VIAN, a. [L. ante and diluvium, a flood. See Lave.] Before the flood, or deluge, in Noah's time; existing, happening, or relating to what happened before the deluge. ANTEDILU'VIAN, n. One who live before the deluge.
Antelope
AN'TELOPE, noun [Gr. resembling a deer.]
In zoology, the gazelle; a genus of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and goat. Their horns are solid and permanent straight or curved; in some species annulated; in others, surrounded by a spiral; and in others, smooth. They resemble the deer in the lightness and elegance of their forms, and in their agility. They inhabit open plains or mountains and some species in herds of two or three thousand. Their eyes are large, black, and of exquisite beauty and vivacity; and are therefore a favorite image with the eastern poets.
Antelucan
ANTELU'CAN, adjective [Latin antelucanus, of ante, before, and lux, light.]
Being before light; a word applied to assemblies of christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.
Antemeridian
ANTEMERID'IAN, adjective [ante, before, and meridian.]
Being before noon; pertaining to the forenoon.
Antemetic
ANTEMET'IC, adjective [against, and emetic, from to vomit.] Restraining or allaying vomiting.
ANTEMET'IC, noun A medicine which checks vomiting.
Antemundane
ANTEMUND'ANE, adjective [ante, before, and mundus, the world.] Being before the creation of the world.
Antenicene
ANTENI'CENE, adjective [ante, before, and Nicene, from Nice.]
Anterior to the first council of Nice; as antenicene faith.
Antennae
ANTEN'NAE, noun plural [Latin antenna, a sail yard.]
In zoology, the horns or feelers of insects, projecting from the head.
Antenumber
ANTENUM'BER, noun A number that precedes another.
Antenuptial
ANTENUP'TIAL, adjective [ante and nuptial.]
Being before marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement; antenuptial children.
Antepaschal
ANTEPASCH'AL, adjective Pertaining to the time before Easter.
Antepast
AN'TEPAST, noun [ante, before, and pastum, fed.]
A foretaste; something taken before the proper time.
Antepenult
ANTEPENULT', noun [Latin ante, before, pene, almost, and ultimus, last.]
The last syllable of a word, except two; as syl in syllable.
Antepenultimate
ANTEPENULT'IMATE, adjective Pertaining to the last syllable but two.
Antepheptic
ANTEPHEP'TIC, adjective [against, and epileptic, from to seize.]
Resisting or curing epilepsy.
Antepileptic
ANTEPILEP'TIC, noun A remedy for the epilepsy.
Anteposition
ANTEPOSI'TION, noun s as z. [Latin ante, before, and position, from pono, to place.]
In grammar, the placing of a word before another which by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
Antepredicament
ANTEPREDIC'AMENT, noun [ante and predicament.]
A preliminary question in logic to illustrate the doctrine of predicaments and categories; a question which is to be first known.
Anterior
ANTE'RIOR, adjective [Latin]
1. Before in time or place; prior; antecedent; preceding in time.
2. Before or in front in place.
Anteriority
ANTERIOR'ITY, noun The state of being anterior, preceding or in front; a state of being before in time, or situation.
Anteroom
AN'TEROOM, noun [ante and room.] A room before or in front of another.
Antes
AN'TES, noun plural [Latin] Pillars of large dimensions that support the front of a building.
Antestature
ANTESTAT'URE, noun [ante and stature.]
In fortification, a small retrenchment or work formed of palisades, or sacks of earth.
Antestomach
ANTESTOM'ACH, noun [ante and stomach.]
A cavity which leads into the stomach, as the crop in birds. [Not in use.]
Antevert
ANTEVERT', verb transitive [Latin anteverto.] To prevent. [Not in use.]
Antevirgilian
ANTEVIRGIL'IAN, adjective A term given to Tull's new husbandry, or method of horse hoeing.
Anthelmintic
ANTHELMIN'TIC, adjective [against, and a worm.] Good against worms.
ANTHELMIN'TIC, noun A remedy for worms in the intestines.
Anthem
AN'THEM, noun [Gr. against, and a hymn, from to sing. See Hymn.]
A hymn sung in alternate parts; but in modern usage, a sacred tune or piece of music set to words, taken from the psalms or other parts of the scriptures, first introduced into church service in Elizabeth's reign.
Anthem-Wise
AN'THEM-WISE, adverb In the manner of an anthem; alternately.
Anthemis
AN'THEMIS, noun Camomile.
Anther
AN'THER, noun [Latin anthera, a flowery plant, from the Greek, flowery, from a flower.]
In botany, the summit or top of the stamen, connected with the flower, and elevated by means of the filament or thread, within the corol. It contains the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the stigma. It is called by Ray, the apex, and by Malpighi, the capsula staminis.
Antheral
AN'THERAL, adjective Pertaining to anthers.
Antheriferous
ANTHERIF'EROUS, adjective [anther and fero, to bear.] Producing anthers.
Anthesterion
ANTHESTE'RION, noun The sixth month of the Athenian year, consisting of 29 days, and answering to a part of November and a part of December. It is supposed to be so called from the Anthesteria, feasts in honor of Bacchus, celebrated in that month, and so called, a flower; garlands of flowers being offered to Bacchus at those feasts.
Anthological
ANTHOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to anthology.
Anthology
ANTHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a flower, and a discourse, a collection.]
1. A discourse on flowers.
2. A collection of beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams. In the Greek church, a collection of devotional pieces.
AN'THONY'S FIRE, A popular name of the crysipelas, supposed to have been so named from the saint in Italy, to whom those, who were affected, applied for a cure.
Anthophyllite
ANTHOPH'YLLITE, noun [Gr. a flower, and a leaf.]
A mineral in masses composed of interlaced plates, or crystallized in reed-shaped crystals, which appear to be four sided prisms longitudinally streaked. The color is between dark yellowish gray and olive brown; the luster shining and pearly.
Anthorism
AN'THORISM, noun [Gr. opposite, and definition.]
In rhetoric, a description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party.
Anthracite
AN'THRACITE, noun [Gr. a burning coal; infra.]
Slaty glance-coal, or columnar glance coal; that species of coal which has a shining luster, approaching to metallic, and which burns without smoke, and with intense heat. It consists essentially of carbon.
Anthracolite
AN'THRACOLITE. [See Anthracite.]
Anthrax
AN'THRAX, noun [Gr.; supra.]
A carbuncle; a malignant ulcer, with intense burning. The ancients gave this name to a gem, and it is sometimes used for lithanthrax or pit-coal.
Anthropoglot
ANTHROP'OGLOT, [Gr. man, and the tongue.]
An animal which has a tongue resembling that of a man, of which kind are parrots.
Anthropography
ANTHROPOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. man, and description.]
A description of man or the human race, or of the parts of the human body.
Anthropolite
ANTHROP'OLITE, noun [Gr. man, and a stone.]
A petrifaction of the human body, or skeleton. Some naturalists have asserted that skeletons of the animal frame have been found petrified in old mines; but the fact is not credited, and the existence of such petrifactions is denied.
Capt. Wilford informs us, that in digging a well near the Ganga, some persons found, at the depth of 90 feet, on an old bed of that river, the bones of men and quadrupeds, supposed to be petrifactions.
The skeleton of a man has been found in limestone rock, of recent formation, in Guadaloupe.
Human bones have also been found, by Prof. Buckland, in the open cave of Paviland, Glamorganshire. He considers them postdiluvian.
Anthropological
ANTHROPOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to anthropology; according to human manner of speaking.
Anthropologist
ANTHROPOL'OGIST, noun One who describes, or is versed in the physical history of the human body.
Anthropology
ANTHROPOL'OGY, noun [Gr. man, and discourse.]
1. A discourse upon human nature.
2. The doctrine of the structure of the human body; the natural history or physiology of the human species.
3. The word denotes that manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.
Anthropomancy
ANTHROPOM'ANCY, noun [Gr. man, and divination.]
Divination by inspecting the entrails of a human being.
Anthropomorphism
ANTHROPOMORPH'ISM, noun The heresy of the anthropomorphites.
Anthropomorphite
ANTHROPOMORPH'ITE, noun [Gr. man, and form.]
One who believes a human form in the Supreme Being. A sect of ancient heretics are called anthropomorphites.
Anthropomorphous
ANTHROPOMORPH'OUS, adjective Belonging to that which has the form of man; having the figure of resemblance to a man.
Anthropopathy
ANTHROPOP'ATHY, noun [man, and passion.]
The affections of man, or the application of human passions to the Supreme Being.
Anthropophagi
ANTHROPOPH'AGI, noun plural [Gr. man, and to eat.]
Maneaters; cannibals; men that eat human flesh.
Anthropophagous
ANTHROPOPH'AGOUS, adjective Feeding on human flesh.
Anthropophagy
ANTHROPOPH'AGY, noun The eating of human flesh, or the practice of eat it.
Anthroposcopy
ANTHROPOS'COPY, noun [Gr. man, and to view.]
The art of discovering or judging of a man's character, passions and inclinations from the lineaments of his body.
Anthroposophy
ANTHROPOS'OPHY, noun [Gr. man, and wisdom.]
Knowledge of the nature of man; acquaintance with man's structure and functions, comprehending anatomy and physiology.
Anthypnotic
ANTHYPNOT'IC, adjective Corrupt orthography. [See Antihypnotic.]
Anthypochondriac
ANTHYPOCHOND'RIAC. [See Antihypochondriac.]
Anthypophora
ANTHYPOPH'ORA. [See Antihypophora.]
Anthysteric
ANTHYSTER'IC. [See Antihysteric.]
Anti
AN'TI, noun [Gr. See Ante.] A preposition signifying against, opposite, contrary, or in place of; used in many English words.
Anti-Chamber
AN'TI-CHAMBER, noun Dr. Johnson prefers ante-chamber, which see. But ante and anti are the same word in different dialects; and have the same radical signification. [See Ante.]
Anti-Christ
AN'TI-CHRIST, noun [Gr. against, and Christ.]
A great adversary of Christ; the man of sin; described
. . . Protestants generally suppose this adversary to be the Papal power; and some divines believe that, in a more general sense, the word extends to any persons who deny Christ or oppose the fundamental doctrines of christianity.
Antiacid
ANTIAC'ID, adjective Opposing or removing acidity. Often written antacid.
ANTIAC'ID, noun An alkali; a medicine proper to correct sourness, or acidity; an absorbent, as chalk, magnesia, coral, sea shells, hematite, steel fillings; or an obtundent, as oil or fat; or an immutant, as lixivious salts, and soaps.
Antiamerican
ANTIAMER'ICAN, adjective Opposed to America, or to the true interests or government of the United States; opposed to the revolution in America.
Antiarthritic
ANTIARTHRIT'IC, adjective [See Antarthritic.] Good against the gout.
ANTIARTHRIT'IC, noun A remedy for the gout.
Antiasthmatic
ANTIASTHMAT'IC, adjective [See Antasthmatic.] Good against asthma.
ANTIASTHMAT'IC, noun A remedy for the asthma.
Antibacchius
ANTIBAC'CHIUS, noun [Gr. a foot of one short and two long syllables.]
In poetry, a foot of three syllables, the two first long and the last short, as ambire; opposed to the bacchius, in which the first syllable is short and the two last long. This foot is supposed to be so named from its use in hymns to Bacchus.
Antibasilican
ANTIBASIL'ICAN, adjective s as z. [Gr. a palace; Latin royal, a hall of justice.] Opposed to royal state and magnificence.
Antic
AN'TIC, adjective [Latin antiquus.] Odd' fanciful; as, antic tricks.
AN'TIC, noun
1. A buffoon or merry Andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations.
2. Odd appearance; fanciful figures.
3. In architecture, sculpture and painting, such pieces as were made by the ancients; usually written antique, and pronounced anteek, but without any good reason.
AN'TIC, verb transitive To make antic
Anticachectic
ANTICACHEC'TIC, adjective [Gr. of an ill habit of body.]
Curing or tending to cure an ill habit of the constitution.
Anticatarrhal
ANTICAT'ARRHAL, adjective [against, and a catarrh.] Good against catarrh.
ANTICAT'ARRHAL, adjective Remedy for catarrh.
Anticausotic
ANTICAUSOT'IC, adjective [against, and a burning fever.] Good against a burning fever.
ANTICAUSOT'IC, noun A remedy for a burning fever.
Antichachectic
ANTICHACHEC'TIC, noun A medicine that tends to correct an ill habit of body.
Antichristian
ANTICHRIS'TIAN, adjective Pertaining to antichrist; opposite to or opposing the christian religion.
ANTICHRIS'TIAN, noun A follower of antichrist; one opposed to the christian religion.
Antichristianism
ANTICHRIS'TIANISM, noun Opposition or contrariety to the christian religion.
Antichristianity
ANTICHRISTIAN'ITY, noun Opposition or contrariety to christianity.
Antichronism
ANTICH'RONISM, noun [Gr. time.] Deviation from the true order of time.
Anticipate
ANTIC'IPATE, verb transitive [Latin anticipo, of ante, before, and capio, to take.]
1. To take or act, before another, so as to prevent him; to take first possession.
2. To take before the proper time; as, the advocate has anticipated that part of his argument.
3. To foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of something future; as, to anticipate the pleasures of an entertainment; to anticipate the evils of life.
4. To prevent by crowding in before; to preclude.
[This sense is essentially included in the first.]
Anticipated
ANTIC'IPATED, participle passive Taken before; foretasted; foreseen; precluded; prevented.
Anticipating
ANTIC'IPATING, participle present tense Taking before; foretasting; precluding; preventing.
Anticipation
ANTICIPA'TION, noun
1. The act of taking up, placing, or considering something before the proper time, in natural order; prevention.
2. Foretaste; previous view or impression of what is to happen afterward; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.
The happy anticipation of a renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
3. Previous notion; preconceived opinion, produced in the mind, before the truth is known; slight previous impression.
4. The attack of a fever before the usual time.
5. In music, the obtrusion of a chord upon a syncopated note, to which it forms a discord.
Anticipator
ANTIC'IPATOR, noun One who anticipates.
Anticipatory
ANTIC'IPATORY, adjective Taking before the time.
Anticlimax
ANTICLI'MAX, noun [Gr. opposite, and climax. See Climate.]
A sentence in which the ideas fall or become less important and striking at the close; opposed to climax. For example,
Next comes Dalhousie, the great God of war,
Lieutenant Col'nel to the Earl of Mar.
Anticly
AN'TICLY, adverb In an antic manner; with odd postures and gesticulations; with fanciful appearance.
Anticmask
AN'TICMASK or AN'TIMASK, noun A mask of antics.
Anticonstitutional
ANTICONSTITU'TIONAL, adjective Opposed to or against the constitution.
Anticonstitutional
ANTICONSTITU'TIONAL, adjective Opposed to or against the constitution.
Anticontagionist
ANTICONTA'GIONIST, noun One who opposes the doctrine of contagion.
Anticontagious
ANTICONTA'GIOUS, adjective [and contagious.] Opposing or destroying contagion.
Anticonvulsive
ANTICONVUL'SIVE, adjective [and convulsive.] Good against convulsions.
Anticor
AN'TICOR, noun [anti, and Latin cor, the heart.]
Among farriers, an inflammation in a horse's throat, answering to the quinsy in man.
Anticosmetic
ANTICOSMET'IC, adjective [anti and cosmetic. See Cosmetic.] Destructive or injurious to beauty.
ANTICOSMET'IC, noun Any preparation which injures beauty.
Anticourt
AN'TICOURT, adjective In opposition to the court. [Not used.]
Anticourtier
ANTICOURTIER, noun anticortyer. [anti and courtier.]
One who opposed the court, or the measures of administration.
Anticreator
ANTICREA'TOR, noun One that opposes the creator.
Antidemocratic
ANTIDEMOCRAT'IC,
ANTIDEMOCRAT'ICAL, adjective Opposing democracy; contrary to government by the people.
Antidemocratical
ANTIDEMOCRAT'ICAL, a. Opposing democracy; contrary to government by the people.
Antidotal
AN'TIDOTAL, adjective That has the quality of preventing the ill effects of poison, or of any thing noxious or mischievous.
Antidote
AN'TIDOTE, noun [against, to give.]
1. A medicine to counteract the effects of poison, or of any thing noxious taken into the stomach.
2. Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract the evil which something else might produce.
Antidotical
ANTIDO'TICAL, adjective Serving as an antidote.
Antidotically
ANTIDO'TICALLY, adverb By way of antidote.
Antidysenteric
ANTIDYSENTER'IC, adjective [Gr. against, and dysenteric.] Good against the dysentery, or bloody flux.
ANTIDYSENTER'IC, noun A remedy for dysentery.
Antiemetic
ANTIEMET'IC, adjective [Gr. against, and emetic, from to vomit.] Having the quality of allaying vomiting.
ANTIEMET'IC, noun A remedy to check or allay vomiting.
Antienneahedral
ANTIENNEAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. opposite, nine, and side.]
In crystallography, having nine faces on two opposite parts of the crystal.
Antienthusiastic
ANTIENTHUSIAS'TIC, adjective [anti and enthusiastic.] Opposing enthusiasm.
Antientry
AN'TIENTRY, noun [More correctly, ancientry.] Cast of antiquity; that which is ancient.
Antiepiscopal
ANTIEPISC'OPAL, adjective Adverse to episcopacy.
Antievangelical
ANTIEVANGEL'ICAL, adjective Contrary to orthodoxy, or the genuine sense of the gospel.
Antiface
AN'TIFACE, noun Opposite face.
Antifanatic
ANTIFANAT'IC, noun An opposer of fanaticism.
Antifebrile
ANTIFE'BRILE, adjective [against, and febrile.]
That has the quality of abating fever; opposing or tending to cure fever.
ANTIFE'BRILE, noun A medicine that cures, abates, or tends to allay fever.
Antiflattering
ANTIFLAT'TERING, adjective Opposite to flattery.
Antigugler
ANTIGUG'LER, noun [anti and guggle.]
A crooked tube of metal, so bent as to be introduced into the neck of a bottle, for drawing out the liquor, without disturbing the sediment.
Antihectic
ANTIHEC'TIC, adjective [Gr. against, and hectic.]
That has the quality of opposing or curing hectical disorders.
ANTIHEC'TIC, noun A medicine that is good in the cure of hectic disorders.
Antihypnotic
ANTIHYPNOT'IC, adjective [Gr. sleep.]
Counteracting sleep; tending to prevent sleep or lethargy.
ANTIHYPNOT'IC, noun A medicine that prevents or tends to prevent sleep.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.