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Antihypochondriac

ANTIHYPOCHOND'RIAC, adjective [Gr. hypochondriac.]

That counteracts or tends to cure hypochondriac affections, and depression of spirits.

ANTIHYPOCHOND'RIAC, noun A remedy for hypochondriac affections and low spirits.

Antihypophora

ANTIHYPOPH'ORA, noun [Gr. an inference.]

In rhetoric, a figure which consists in refuting an objection by the opposition of a contrary sentence.

Antihysteric

ANTIHYSTER'IC, adjective [Gr. uterus.] Counteracting hysterics.

ANTIHYSTER'IC, noun A medicine that cures or counteracts hysterical affections.

Antilogarithm

ANTILOG'ARITHM, noun [anti and logarithm.]

The complement of the logarithm of any sine, tangent or secant, to 90 degrees.

Antilogy

ANTIL'OGY, noun [Gr. against, and speech.]

A contradiction between any words or passages in an author.

Antimagistrical

ANTIMAGIS'TRICAL, adjective Opposed to the office of magistrates. [Not used.]

Antimaniac

ANTIMA'NIAC,

ANTIMANI'ACAL, adjective [anti and maniac.] Counteracting or curing madness or frenzy.

Antimaniacal

ANTIMANI'ACAL, a. [anti and maniac.] Counteracting or curing madness or frenzy.

Antimask

AN'TIMASK, noun A lesser mask.

Antimetabole

ANTIMETAB'OLE, noun antimetab'oly. [Gr. against, and mutation.]

In rhetoric, a setting of two things in opposition to each other; as, an honorable action may be attended with labor, but the labor is soon past, and the honor is immortal.

Antimetathesis

ANTIMETATH'ESIS, noun [Gr. against, and a transposition.]

In rhetoric, an inversion of the parts or members of an antithesis; as, 'Compare the arrival of this governor, with the victory of that general.' Compare this peace with that war.'

Antimeter

ANTIM'ETER, noun [Gr. measure.]

An optical instrument for measuring angles, with greater accuracy than can be done by the usual quadrants or sextants.

Antimetrical

ANTIMET'RICAL, adjective Contrary to the rules of meter or verse.

Antiministerial

ANTIMINISTE'RIAL, adjective [anti and ministerial.]

Opposed to the ministry, or administration of government.

Antiministerialist

ANTIMINISTE'RIALIST, noun One that opposes the ministry.

Antimonarchical

ANTIMONARCH'ICAL, adjective [anti, against and monarchical.]

Opposed to monarchy; that opposes a kingly government.

Antimonarchicalnes

ANTIMONARCH'ICALNESS, noun The quality of being opposed to monarchy.

Antimonial

ANTIMO'NIAL, adjective [from antimony.]

Pertaining to antimony; relating to antimony, or partaking of its qualities.

ANTIMO'NIAL, noun A preparation of antimony; a medicine in which antimony is a principal ingredient.

Antimoniate

ANTIMO'NIATE, noun A compound or salt composed of antimonic acid and a base.

Antimoniated

ANTIMO'NIATED, adjective Partaking of antimony; mixed or prepared with antimony; as antimoniated tartar.

Antimonic

ANTIMO'NIC, adjective Pertaining to antimony; the antimonic acid is a peroxide of antimony.

Antimonious

ANTIMO'NIOUS, adjective Pertaining to antimony. The antimonious acid is a deutoxyd of antimony.

Antimonite

AN'TIMONITE, noun A compound of antimonious acid and a base.

Antimony

AN'TIMONY, noun [Low Latin antimonium.]

Primarily, a metallic ore consisting of sulphur combined with a metal; the sulphuret of antimony the stibium of the Romans and of the Greeks. It is a blackish mineral, which stains the hands, hard, brittle, full of long, shining, needlelike striae. It is found in the mines of Bohemia, and Hungary; in France and England, and in America. This word is also used for the pure metal of regulus of antimony a metal of a grayish or silvery white, very brittle, and of a plated or scaly texture, and of moderate specific gravity. By exposure to air, its surface becomes tarnished, but does not rust. It is used as an ingredient in concave mirrors, giving them a finer texture. In bells, it renders the sound more clear; it renders tin more hard, white and sonorous, and gives to printing types more firmness and smoothness. It is also useful in promoting the fusion of metals, and especially in casting cannon balls. In its crude state, it is harmless to the human constitution; but many of its preparations act violently as emetics and cathartics. It has also a peculiar efficacy in promoting the secretions, particularly as a sudorific.

Antimoralist

ANTIMOR'ALIST, noun An opposer of morality.

Antimusical

ANTIMU'SICAL, adjective Opposed to music; having no ear for music.

Antinephritic

ANTINEPHRIT'IC, adjective [anti, and nephritic, which see.]

Counteracting diseases of the kidneys.

ANTINEPHRIT'IC, noun A medicine that tends to remove diseases of the kidneys.

Antinomian

ANTINO'MIAN, adjective [Gr. against, and law.] Against law; pertaining to the Antinomians.

ANTINO'MIAN, noun One of a sect who maintain, that, under the gospel dispensation, the law is of no use or obligation; or who hold doctrines which supersede the necessity of good works and a virtuous life. This sect originated with John Agricola about the year 1538.

Antinomianism

ANTINO'MIANISM, noun The tenets of Antinomians.

Antinomist

AN'TINOMIST, noun One who pays no regard to the law, or to good works.

Antinomy

AN'TINOMY, noun A contradiction between two laws, or between two parts of the same law.

Antiochian

ANTIO'CHIAN, adjective Pertaining to Antiochus, the founder of a sect of philosophers, contemporary with Cicero. This sect was a branch of the academics, though Antiochus was a stoic. He attempted to reconcile the doctrines of the different schools, and was the last preceptor of the Platonic school.

The antiochian epoch was a method of computing time, from the proclamation of liberty granted to the city of Antioch, about the time of the battle of Pharsalia.

Antipapal

ANTIPA'PAL, adjective Opposing popery.

Antipapistic

ANTIPAPIS'TIC,

ANTIPAPIS'TICAL, adjective Opposed to popery or papacy.

Antipapistical

ANTIPAPIS'TICAL, a. Opposed to popery or papacy.

Antiparallel

ANTIPAR'ALLEL, adjective Running in a contrary direction.

Antiparalytic

ANTIPARALYT'IC, adjective [paralytic, which see.] Good against the palsy.

ANTIPARALYT'IC, noun A remedy for the palsy.

Antipathetic

ANTIPATHET'IC,

ANTIPATHET'ICAL, adjective [See Antipathy.]

Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion to a thing.

Antipathetical

ANTIPATHET'ICAL, a. [See Antipathy.] Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion to a thing.

Antipatheticalness

ANTIPATHET'ICALNESS, noun The quality or state of having an aversion or contrariety to a thing.

Antipathy

ANTIP'ATHY, noun [Gr. against, and feeling.]

1. Natural aversion; instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling; an aversion felt at the presence, real or ideal, of a particular object. This word literally denotes a natural aversion, which may be of different degrees, and in some cases may excite terror or horror at the presence of an object. Such is the aversion of animals for their natural enemies, as the antipathy of a mouse to a cat, or a weasel. Sometimes persons have an insuperable constitutional antipathy to certain kinds of food.

The word is applied also to aversion contracted by experience or habit; as when a person has suffered an injury from some food, or from an animal, which before was not an object of hatred; or when a particular kind of food or medicine is taken into a sickly stomach, and which nauseates it; the effect is antipathy which is often of long continuance.

2. In ethics, antipathy is hatred, aversion or repugnancy; hatred to persons; aversion to persons or things; repugnancy to actions. Of these hatred is most voluntary. Aversion, and antipathy in its true sense, depend more on the constitution; repugnancy may depend on reason or education.

Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided.

3. In physics, a contrariety in the properties or affections of matter, as of oil and water, which will not mix.

Antipathy is regularly followed by to, sometimes by against; and is opposed to sympathy.

Antipatriotic

ANTIPATRIOT'IC, adjective Not patriotic; opposing the interests of one's country.

Antipatriotic prejudices.

Antipedobaptist

ANTIPEDOBAP'TIST, noun [Gr. against, a child, and baptize.]

One who is opposed to the baptism of infants.

Antiperistaltic

ANTIPERISTAL'TIC, adjective [See Peristaltic.]

Opposed to peristaltic; retroverted, as in vomiting; as, the antiperistaltic motion of the intestines.

Antiperistasis

ANTIPERIS'TASIS, noun [Gr. against, and a standing around.]

The opposition of a contrary quality, by which the quality opposed acquires strength; or the action by which a body attacked collects force by opposition; or the intention of the activity of one quality by the opposition of another. Thus quick-lime is set on fire, or sensible heat is excited in it, by mixture with water; and cold applied to the human body may increase its heat.

Antiperistatic

ANTIPERISTAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to antiperistasis.

Antipestilential

ANTIPESTILEN'TIAL, adjective [anti and pestilential, which see.]

Counteracting contagion or infection; having the quality of opposing or destroying pestilential diseases.

Antiphlogistian

ANTIPHLOGIS'TIAN, noun [anti and phlogiston, which see.]

An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.

Antiphlogistic

ANTIPHLOGIS'TIC, adjective Counteracting heat or inflammation; tending to reduce arterial action; opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

ANTIPHLOGIS'TIC, noun Any medicine or diet which tends to reduce inflammation or the activity of the vital power.

Antiphon

AN'TIPHON, noun [See Antiphony.]

The chant or alternate singing in choirs of cathedrals.

Antiphonal

ANTIPH'ONAL,

ANTIPH'ONARY, noun [contrary, and sound, voice.]

A service book, in the Catholic church, containing all the invitatories, responsories, collects, and whatever is said or sung in the choir, except the lessons; called also a responsary; compiled by Gregory the Great.

Antiphonary

ANTIPH'ONARY, n. [contrary, and sound, voice.] A service book, in the Catholic church, containing all the invitatories, responsories, collects, and whatever is said or sung in the choir, except the lessons; called also a responsary; compiled by Gregory the Great.

Antiphoner

ANTIPH'ONER, noun A book of anthems or antiphons.

Antiphonic

ANTIPHON'IC,

ANTIPHON'ICAL, adjective [See Antiphony.] Pertaining to antiphony or alternate singing.

Antiphonical

ANTIPHON'ICAL, a. [See Antiphony.] Pertaining to antiphony or alternate singing.

Antiphony

ANTIPH'ONY, noun [contrary, and voice.]

1. The answer of one choir to another, when an anthem or psalm is sung by two choirs; alternate singing.

2. A species of psalmody, when a congregation is divided into two parts, and each sings the verses alternately.

3. The words given out at the beginning of a psalm, to which both the choirs are to accommodate their singing.

4. A musical composition of several verses, extracted from different psalms.

Antiphrasis

ANTIPH'RASIS, noun [Gr. against, and a form of speech.]

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

Antiphrastic

ANTIPHRAS'TIC,

ANTIPHRAS'TICAL, adjective Pertaining to antiphrasis.

Antiphrastical

ANTIPHRAS'TICAL, a. Pertaining to antiphrasis.

Antipodal

ANTIP'ODAL, adjective Pertaining to the antipodes; having the feet directly opposite.

Antipode

AN'TIPODE, noun [Gr. opposite, and foot.]

One who lives on the opposite side of the globe, and of course, whose feet are directly opposite.

Antipoison

ANTIPOI'SON, noun s as z. An antidote for poison.

Antipope

AN'TIPOPE, noun [anti and pope.]

One who usurps the papal power, in opposition to the pope.

AN'TIPOPE, noun An outward gate or door.

Antiprelatical

ANTIPRELAT'ICAL, adjective Adverse to prelacy.

Antipriest

AN'TIPRIEST, noun An opposer or enemy of priests.

Antipriestcraft

ANTIPRIE'STCRAFT, noun Opposition to priestcraft.

Antiprinciple

ANTIPRIN'CIPLE, noun An opposite principle.

Antiprophet

ANTIPROPH'ET, noun An enemy or opposer of prophets.

Antiptosis

ANTIP'TOSIS, noun [Gr. case.]

In grammar, the putting of one case for another.

Antipuritan

ANTIPU'RITAN, noun An opposer of puritans.

Antiquarian

ANTIQUA'RIAN, adjective Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity. As a noun, this is used for antiquary.

Antiquarianism

ANTIQUA'RIANISM, noun Love of antiquities.

Antiquary

AN'TIQUARY, noun [Latin antiquarius.]

One who studies into the history of ancient things, as statues, coins, medals, paintings, inscriptions, books and manuscripts, or searches for them, and explains their origin and purport; one versed in antiquity.

Antiquate

AN'TIQUATE, verb transitive [Latin antiquo. See Antiquary.]

To make old, or obsolete; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use. Hence, when applied to laws or customs, it amounts to make void or abrogate.

Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws and antiquate or abrogate old ones.

Antiquated

AN'TIQUATED, participle passive Grown old; obsolete; out of use; having lost its binding force by non-observance; as an antiquated law.

Antiquatedness

AN'TIQUATEDNESS, noun The state of being old or obsolete.

Antiquation

ANTIQUA'TION, noun The state of being antiquated.

Antique

ANTIQUE, adjective antee'k. [Latin antiquus, probably from ante.]

1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; in this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome; as an antique statue.

2. Old, as it respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion, as an antique robe.

3. Odd; wild; fanciful; more generally written antic.

ANTIQUE, noun antee'k. In general, any thing very old; but in a more limited sense, the remains of ancient artists, as busts, statues, paintings and vases, the works of Grecian and Roman antiquity.

Antiqueness

ANTIQUENESS, noun antee'kness. The quality of being ancient; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship.

Antiquity

ANTIQ'UITY, noun [Latin antiquitas.]

1. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; a very indefinite term; as, Cicero was the most eloquent orator of antiquity

2. The ancients; the people of ancient times; as, the fact is admitted by all antiquity

Meaning that mankind are inclined to verify the predictions of antiquity

3. Ancientness; great age; the quality of being ancient; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity

4. Old age; a ludicrous sense used by Shak.

5. The remains of ancient times. In this sense it is usually or always plural. Antiquities comprehend all the remains of ancient times; all the monuments, coins, inscriptions, edifices, history and fragments of literature, offices, habiliments, weapons, manners, ceremonies; in short, whatever respects any of the ancient nations of the earth.

Antirevolutionary

ANTIREVOLU'TIONARY, adjective [See Revolution.]

Opposed to a revolution; opposed to an entire change in the form of government.

Antirevolutionist

ANTIREVOLU'TIONIST, noun One who is opposed to a revolution in government.

Antisabbatarian

ANTISABBATA'RIAN, noun [anti and sabbath.]

One of a sect who oppose the observance of the Christian sabbath; maintaining that the Jewish sabbath was only of ceremonial, not of moral obligation, and was consequently abolished by Christ.

Antisabian

ANTISA'BIAN, adjective [See sabian.]

Opposed or contrary to Sabianism, or the worship of the celestial orbs.

Antisacerdotal

ANTISACERDO'TAL, adjective Adverse to priests.

Antiscian

ANTIS'CIAN, ANTIS'CIANS, noun [Latin antiscii, of Gr. opposite, and shadow.]

Antiscians

ANTIS'CIAN, ANTIS'CIANS, noun [Latin antiscii, of Gr. opposite, and shadow.]

In geography, the inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in contrary directions. Those who live north of the equator are antiscians to those on the south, and vice versa; the shadows on one side being cast towards the north; those on the other, towards the south.

Antiscorbutic

ANTISCORBU'TIC, adjective [anti and scorbutic.] which see.]

Counteracting the scurvy.

ANTISCORBU'TIC, noun A remedy for the scurvy.

Antiscripturism

ANTISCRIP'TURISM, noun Opposition to the Holy Scriptures.

Antiscripturist

ANTISCRIP'TURIST, noun One that denies revelation.

Antiseptic

ANTISEP'TIC, adjective [Gr. putrid, from to putrify.]

Opposing or counteracting putrefaction.

ANTISEP'TIC, noun A medicine which resists or corrects putrefaction, as acids, stimulants, saline substances, astringents, etc.

Antisocial

ANTISO'CIAL, adjective [See Social.]

Averse to society; that tends to interrupt or destroy social intercourse.

Antispasis

ANTIS'PASIS, noun [Gr. against, and to draw.]

A revulsion of fluids, from one part of the body to another.

Antispasmodic

ANTISPASMOD'IC, adjective [Gr. against, and from to draw.]

Opposing spasm; resisting convulsions; as anodynes.

ANTISPASMOD'IC, noun A remedy for spasm or convulsions, as opium, balsam of Peru, and the essential oils of vegetables.

Antispastic

ANTISPAS'TIC, adjective [See Antispasis.]

Causing a revulsion of fluids or humors.

Antisplenetic

ANTISPLENET'IC, adjective [See Spleen.]

Good as a remedy in diseases of the spleen.

Antistasis

ANTIS'TASIS, noun [Gr. Opposite, and station.]

In oratory, the defense of an action from the consideration that if it had been omitted, something worse would have happened.

Antistes

ANTIS'TES, noun [Latin] The chief priest or prelate.

Antistrophe

ANTIS'TROPHE, 'TROPHY, noun [Gr. opposite, and a turning.

1. In grammar, the changing of things mutually depending on each other; reciprocal conversion; as, the master of the servant, the servant of the master.

2. Among the ancients, that part of a song or dance, before the altar, which was performed by turning from west to east, in opposition to the strophy. The ancient odes consisted of stanzas called strophies and antistrophies, to which was often added the epode. These were sung by a choir, which turned or changed places when they repeated the different parts of the ode. The epode was sung, as the chorus stood still. [See Ode.]

Antistrophon

ANTIS'TROPHON, noun A figure which repeats a word often.

Antistrumatic

ANTISTRUMAT'IC, adjective [anti and struma, a scrophulous swelling.]

Good against scrophulous disorders.

Antithesis

ANTITH'ESIS, noun [Gr. from, to place.]

1. In rhetoric, an opposition of words or sentiments; contrast; as, 'When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves we leave them.' 'The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself.' 'Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding.' Liberty with laws, and government without oppression.'

2. Opposition of opinions; controversy.

Antithetic

ANTITHET'IC,

ANTITHET'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing or abounding with antithesis.

Antithetical

ANTITHET'ICAL, a. Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing or abounding with antithesis.

Antitrinitarian

ANTITRINITA'RIAN, noun [anti and trinitarian, which see.]

One who denies the trinity or the existence of three persons in the Godhead.

ANTITRINITA'RIAN, adjective Opposing the trinity.

Antitrinitarianism

ANTITRINITA'RIANISM, noun A denial of the trinity.

Antitype

AN'TITYPE, noun [Gr. against, and a type, or pattern.]

A figure corresponding to another figure; that of which the type is the pattern or representation. Thus the paschal lamb, in scripture, is the type of which Christ is the antitype An antitype then, is something which is formed according to a model or pattern, and bearing strong features of resemblance to it.

In the Greek liturgy, the sacramental bread and wine are called antitypes, that is, figures, similitudes; and the Greek fathers used the word in a like sense.

Antitypical

ANTITYP'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type.

Antivariolous

ANTIVARIO'LOUS, adjective [anti and variolous, which see.]

Opposing the small pox.

'REAL, adjective [anti and venereal which see.]

Resisting venereal poison.

Antler

ANT'LER, noun [From the root of ante, before. See Ante.]

A start or branch of a horn, especially of the horns of the cevine animals, as of the stag or moose. The branch next to the head is called the brow'antler, and the branch next above, the bes-antler.

Antlered

ANT'LERED, adjective Furnished with antlers.

Antonian

ANTO'NIAN, adjective Noting certain medicinal waters in Germany, at or Tonstein.

Antonomasia

ANTONOMA'SIA,

ANTONOM'ASY, noun [Gr. name.]

To use of the name of some office, dignity, profession, science or trade, instead of the true name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, lordship for a nobleman. Thus instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; a grave man is called a Cato; an eminent orator, a Cicero; a wise man, a Solomon. In the latter examples, a proper name is used for an appellative; the application being supported by a resemblance in character.

Antonomasy

ANTONOM'ASY, n. [Gr. name.] To use of the name of some office, dignity, profession, science or trade, instead of the true name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, lordship for a nobleman. Thus instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; a grave man is called a Cato; an eminent orator, a Cicero; a wise man, a Solomon. In the latter examples, a proper name is used for an appellative; the application being supported by a resemblance in character.

Antosiandrian

ANTOSIAN'DRIAN, noun One of a sect of rigid Lutherans, so denominated from their opposing the doctrines of Osiander. This sect deny that man is made just, but is only imputatively just, that is pronounced so.

Anvil

AN'VIL, noun [The Latin word incus, incudis, is formed by a like analogy fromin and cudo, to hammer, or shape.]

An iron block with a smooth face, on which smiths hammer and shape their work.

Figuratively, any thing on which blows are laid.

To be on the anvil is to be in a state of discussion, formation or preparation; as when a scheme or measure is forming, but not matured. This figure bears an analogy to that is discussion, a shaking or beating.

Anxiety

ANXI'ETY, noun angzi'ety. [Latin anxietas, from anxius, solicitous; Latin ango. See Anger.]

1. concern or solicitude respecting some event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness. it expresses more than uneasiness or disturbance, and even more than trouble or solicitude. it usually springs from fear or serious apprehension of evil, and involves a suspense respecting an event, and often, a perplexity of mind, to know how to shape our conduct.

2. In medical language, uneasiness; unceasing restlessness in sickness.

Anxious

ANX'IOUS, a ank'shus.

1. Greatly concerned or solicitous, respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; applied to persons; as, to be anxious for the issue of a battle.

2. Full of solicitude; unquiet; applied to things; as anxious thoughts or labor.

3. Very careful; solicitous; as, anxious to please; anxious to commit no mistake.

It is followed by for or about, before the object.

Anxiously

ANX'IOUSLY, adverb In an anxious manner; solicitously; with painful uncertainty; carefully; unquietly.

Anxiousness

ANX'IOUSNESS, noun The quality of being anxious; great solicitude.

Any

AN'Y, adjective en'ny.

1. One indefinitely.

Nor knoweth any man the Father, save the Son. Math. 11.

If a soul shall sin against any of the commandments.

Leviticus 4:2.

2. Some; an indefinite number, plurally; for though the word is formed from one, it often refers to many. Are there any witnesses present? The sense seems to be a small, uncertain number.

3. Some; an indefinite quantity; a small portion.

Who will show us any good? Psalms 4:6.

4. It is often used as a substitute, the person or thing being understood.

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any Mark 11:3.

If any lack wisdom, let him ask it of God. James 1:5.

It is used in opposition to none. Have you any wheat to sell? I have none.

Any-Wise

ANY-WISE is sometimes used adverbially, but the two words may be separated, and used with a preposition, in any wise.

Aonian

AO'NIAN, adjective [From aonia, a part of Boeotia, in Greece.]

Pertaining to the muses, or to Aonia in Boeotia. The aonian fount was Aganippe, at the foot of mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and sacred to the muses. Hence the muses were called Aonides. But in truth, Aonia itself is formed from the Celtic aon, a spring or fountain, [the fabled son of Neptune, ] and this word gave name to Aonia. As the muses were fond of springs, the word was applied to the muses, and to mountains which were their favorite residence, as to Parnassus.

Aorist

A'ORIST, noun [Gr. indefinite, of a priv. and limit.]

The name of certain tenses in the grammar of the Greek language, which express time indeterminate, that is, either past, present or future.

Aoristic

AORIST'IC, adjective Indefinite; pertaining to an aorist, or indefinite tense.

Aorta

AORT'A, noun [Gr. the great artery; also an ark or chest.]

The great artery, or trunk of the arterial system; proceeding from the left ventricle of the heart, and giving origin to all the arteries, except the pulmonary arteries. It first rises, when it is called the ascending aorta; then makes a great curve, when it gives off branches to the head, and upper extremities; then proceeds downwards, called the descending aorta when it gives off branches to the trunk; and finally divides into the two iliacs, which supply the pelvis and lower extremities.

Aortal

AORT'AL, adjective Pertaining to the aorta, or great artery.

Aouta

AOU'TA, noun The paper-mulberry tree in Otaheite, from whose bark is manufactured a cloth worn by the inhabitants.

Apace

APA'CE, adverb [a and pace.]

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily; with haste; hastily; applied to things in motion or progression; as, birds fly apace; weeds grow apace

Apagoge

AP'AGOGE,

APAGOG'ICAL, adjective An apagogical demonstration is an indirect way of proof, by showing the absurdity or impossibility of the contrary.

Apagogy

AP'AGOGY, noun [Gr. from, to draw aside, of from and to drive.]

1. In logic abduction; a kind of argument, wherein the greater extreme is evidently contained in the medium, but the medium not so evidently in the lesser extreme, as not to require further proof. Thus, 'All whom God absolves are free from sin; but God absolves all who are in Christ; therefore all who are in Christ are free from sin.' The first proposition is evident; but the second may require further proof, as that God received full satisfaction for sin, by the suffering of Christ.

2. In mathematics, a progress or passage from one proposition to another, when the first, having been demonstrated, is employed in proving others.

3. In the Athenian law, the carrying a criminal, taken in the fact, to a magistrate.

Apalachian

APALACH'IAN, adjective Pertaining to the Apalaches, a tribe of Indians, in the westen part of Georgia. Hence the word is applied to the mountains in or near their country, which are in fact the southern extremity of the Alleghanean ridges.

Apanthropy

APAN'THROPY, noun [Gr. from, and man.]

An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude.

Aparithmesis

APARITH'MESIS, noun [Gr.] In rhetoric, enumeration.

Apart

AP'ART, adverb [a and part; See Part.]

1. Separately; at a distance; in a state of separation, as to place.

Jesus departed thence into a desert place apart Math. 14.

2. In a state of distinction, as to purpose, use or character.

The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself.

Psalms 4:3.

3. Distinctly; separately; as, consider the two propositions apart

4. Aside; in exclusion of; as, apart from all regard to his morals, he is not qualified, in other respects, for the office he holds.

Apartment

AP'ARTMENT, noun [See Part.]

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions; a place separated by inclosure.

Apathetic

APATHET'IC, adjective Void of feeling; free from passion; insensible.

Apathy

AP'ATHY, noun [Gr. passion.]

Want of feeling; an utter privation of passion, or insensibility to pain; applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is stoicism, a calmness of mind incapable of being ruffled by pleasure, pain or passion. In the first ages of the church, the christians adopted the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.

Quietism is apathy disguised under the appearance of devotion.

Apatite

AP'ATITE, noun [From Gr. to deceive; it having been often mistaken for other minerals.]

A variety of phosphate of lime; generally crystallized in low, flat, hexahedral prisms, sometimes even tabular. Its powder phosphoresces on burning coals.

The phosporite of Werner includes the massive and earthy varieties of the phosphate, which are distinguished from the apatite by their containing a small portion of fluoric acid.

Ape

APE, noun

1. A genus of quadrupeds, found in the torrid zone of both continents, of a great variety of species. In common use, the word extends to all the tribe of monkeys and baboons; but in zoology, ape is limited to such of these animals as have no tails; while those with short tails are called baboons, and those with long ones, monkeys. These animals have four cutting teeth in each jaw, and two canine teeth, with obtuse grinders. The feet are formed like hands, with four fingers and a thumb, and flat nails. Apes are lively, full of frolic and chatter, generally untamable, thieving and mischievous. They inhabit the forests, and live on fruits, leaves and insects.

2. One who imitates servilely, in allusion to the manners of the ape; a silly fellow.

APE, verb transitive To imitate servilely; to mimic, as an ape imitates human actions. Weak persons are always prone to ape foreigners.

Apeak

APE'AK, adverb [a and peak, a point. See peak.]

1. One the point; in a posture to pierce.

2. In seamen's language, perpendicular. The anchor is apeak when the cable is drawn so as to bring the ship directly over it.

Apennine

AP'ENNINE, adjective [Latin apenninus; ad and penninus, an epithet applied to a peak or ridge of the Alps.]

Pertaining to or designating a chain of mountains, which extend from the plains of Piedmont, round the gulf of Genoa, to the center of Italy, and thence south east to the extremity.

Apennines

AP'ENNINES, noun The mountains above described.

Apepsy

APEP'SY, noun [Gr. diges.]

Defective digestion; indigestion. [Little used.]

Aper

A'PER, noun One who apes. in zoology, the wild boar.

Aperient

APE'RIENT, adjective [Latin aperiens, aperio.]

Opening; that has the quality of opening; deobstruent; laxative.

APE'RIENT, noun a medicine which promoties the circulation of the fluids, by removing obstructions; a laxative; a deobstruent; as, smallage, fennel, asparagus, parsley, and butcher's broom.

Aperitive

APER'ITIVE, adjective Opening; deobstruent; aperient.

Apert

APERT', adjective [Latin apertus.] Open; evident; undisguised. [Not used.]

Apertion

APER'TION, noun The act of opening; the state of being opened; an opening; a gap, aperture, or passage. [Little used.]

Apertly

APERT'LY, adverb Openly [Little used.]

Apertness

APERT'NESS, noun [Latin apertus.] Openness. [Rarely used.]

Apertor

APERT'OR, noun A muscle that raises the upper eye lid.

Aperture

AP'ERTURE, noun

1. The act of opening; more generally, an opening; a gap, cleft or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole through any solid substance.

2. An opening of meaning; explanation. [Not used.]

3. In geometry, the space between two right lines, forming an angle.

Apetalous

APET'ALOUS, adjective [Gr. a flower-leaf or petal.]

In botany, having no petals, or flower-leaves; having no corol.

Apetalousness

APET'ALOUSNESS, noun A state of being without petals.

Apex

A'PEX, noun plural apexes. [Latin apex plural apices.]

The tip, point of summit of any thing. In antiquity, the cap of a flamen or priest; the crest of a helmet. In grammar, the mark of a long syllable. In botany, the anther of flowers, or tops of the stamens, like knobs.

Apexes

A'PICES, A'PEXES. [See Apex, and Anther.]

Aphanite

APH'ANITE, noun [Gr. to appear.]

In mineralogy, compact amphibole in a particular state.

Aphelion

APHE'LION, noun [Gr. from, and the sun.]

That point of a planet's orbit which is most distant from the sun; opposed to perihelion.

Apheresis

APHERE'SIS, noun [Gr. from, and to take.]

1. The taking of a litter or syllable from the beginning of a word. Thus by an apheresis omittere is writter, mittere.

2. In the healing art, the removal of any thing noxious. In surgery, amputation.

Aphidivorous

APHIDIV'OROUS, adjective [of aphis, the puceron or vine fretter, and voro, to eat.]

Eating, devouring, or subsisting on the aphis, or plant-louse.

Aphilanthropy

APHILAN'THROPY, noun [of a neg. and to love, and man.]

Want of love to mankind. In medicine, the first stage of melancholy, when solitude is preferred to society.

Aphis

A'PHIS, noun In zoology, the puceron, vine fretter, or plant-louse; a genus of insects, belonging to the order of hemipters. The aphis is furnished with an inflected beak, and with feelers longer than the thorax. In the same species, some individuals have four erect wings, and others are entirely without wings. The feet are of the ambulatory kind, and the belly usually ends in two horns, from which is ejected the substance called honey-dew. The species are very numerous.

Aphlogistic

APHLOGIS'TIC, adjective [Gr. inflammable.]

Flameless; as an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.

Aphony

APH'ONY, noun [Gr. voice.]

A loss of voice; a palsy of the tongue; dumbness; catalepsy.

Aphorism

APH'ORISM, noun [Gr. determination, distinction; from to separate.]

A maxim; a precept, or principle expressed in few words; a detached sentence containing some important truth; as, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or of the civil law.

Aphorismer

APHORISM'ER, noun A dealer in aphorisms.

Aphoristic

APHORIS'TIC,

APHORIS'TICAL, adjective In the form of an aphorism; in the form of short unconnected sentences; as an aphoristic style.

Aphoristical

APHORIS'TICAL, a. In the form of an aphorism; in the form of short unconnected sentences; as an aphoristic style.

Aphoristically

APHORIS'TICALLY, adverb In the form or manner of aphorisms.

Aphrite

APH'RITE, noun [Gr. froth; the schaum erde, or earth scum, of Werner; the silvery chalk of Kirwan.]

A subvariety of carbonate of lime, occurring in small masses, solid or tender and friable. It is composed of lamels or scales, of a pearly luster. It is connected by insensible shades with argentine.

Aphrizite

APH'RIZITE, noun A variety of black tourmalin.

Aphrodisiac

APHRODIS'IAC,

APHRODISI'ACAL, adjective [Gr. venereal, Venus, from froth.]

Exciting venereal desire; increasing the appetite for sexual connection.

APHRODIS'IAC, noun A provocative to venery.

Aphrodisiacal

APHRODISI'ACAL, a. [Gr. venereal, Venus, from froth.] Exciting venereal desire; increasing the appetite for sexual connection.

Aphrodita

APHRODI'TA, noun

1. In zoology, a genus of the order of Molluscas, called also sea-mouse. The body is oval, with many small protuberances or tentacles on each side, which serve as feet. The mouth is cylindrical, at one end of the body, with two bristly tentacles, and capable of being retracted.

2. A name of Venus, so called from Gr. froth, from which the goddess was supposed to have been produced. [See Venus.]

Aphrodite

APH'RODITE, noun [Gr.] A follower of Venus.

Aphthong

APH'THONG, noun [Gr. without, and sound.]

A letter or combination of letters, which, in the customary pronunciation of a word, have no sound.

Aphthous

APH'THOUS, adjective [Gr. ulcers in the mouth.]

Pertaining to thrush; of the nature of thrush or ulcerous affections of the mouth.

Aphyllous

APH'YLLOUS, adjective [Gr. a leaf.]

In botany, destitute of leaves, as the rush, mushrooms, garlic, some sea-weeds, etc.

Apiary

A'PIARY, noun [Latin apiarium, of apis, a bee.]

The place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees.

Apiaster

A'PIASTER, noun [From apis, a bee.]

The bird called a bee-eater, a species of merops. The apiaster has an iron colored back, and a belly of bluish green.

Apices

A'PICES, A'PEXES. [See Apex, and Anther.]

Apiece

APIE'CE, adverb [a and piece.]

To each; noting the share of each; as here is an orange apiece

Apis

A'PIS, noun In mythology, an ox, worshiped in ancient Egypt, or a divinity or idol in the figure of an ox.

A'PIS, noun [Latin] In zoology, the bee, a genus of insects, of the order of hymenopters. The mouth has two jaws, and a proboscis infolded in a double sheath; the wings are four, the two foremost covering the hinder ones when at rest. The females and working bees have a sting.

Apish

A'PISH, adjective [See Ape.] Having the qualities of an ape; inclined to imitate in a servile manner; hence, foolish, foppish, affected, trifling, insignificant; as, an apish fellow; apish manners.

Apishly

A'PISHLY, adverb In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.

Apishness

A'PISHNESS, noun The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery.

Apitpat

APIT'PAT, With quick beating or palpitation; a word formed from the sound, pit and pat, or from beat.

Aplanatic

APLANAT'IC, adjective [Gr. to wander.]

An aplanatic telescope is one which entirely corrects the aberration of the rays of light. It is thus distinguished from the achromatic, which only partially corrects the aberration.

Aplome

APLO'ME, noun [Gr. simple.]

A mineral closely allied to garnet. It is considered by Jameson, as crystallized common garnet. It is a rare mineral, found in dodecahedrons, with rhombic faces, supposed to be derived from the cube, by one of the most simple laws of decrement, that of a single range of particles, parallel to all the edges of a cube.

Apluster

APLUS'TER,

APLUS'TRE, noun [Latin from Gr. the summit of the poop of a ship.]

An ensign, or ornament carried by ancient ships. It was shaped like a plume of feathers, fastened on the neck of a goose or swan, and to this was attached a party-colored ribbon, to indicate the course of the wind.

Aplustre

APLUS'TRE, n. [L. from Gr. the summit of the poop of a ship.] An ensign, or ornament carried by ancient ships. It was shaped like a plume of feathers, fastened on the neck of a goose or swan, and to this was attached a party-colored ribbon, to indicate the course of the wind.

Apocalypse

APOC'ALYPSE, noun apoc'alyps. [Gr. from to disclose; and to cover.]

Revelation; discovery; disclosure. The name of a book of the New Testament, containing many discoveries or predictions respecting the future state of Christianity, written by St. John, in Patmos, near the close of the first century.

Apocalyptic

APOCALYP'TIC,

APOCALYP'TICAL, adjective Containing or pertaining to revelation; disclosing.

Apocalyptical

APOCALYP'TICAL, a. Containing or pertaining to revelation; disclosing.

Apocalyptically

APOCALYP'TICALLY, adverb By revelation; in the manner of disclosure.

Apocopate

APOC'OPATE, verb transitive [See apocope.]

To cut off, or drop the last letter or syllable of a word.

Apocopated

APOC'OPATED, participle passive Shortened by the omission of the last letter or syllable.

Apocopating

APOC'OPATING, participle present tense Cutting off, or omitting the last letter or syllable.

Apocope

APOC'OPE,

APOC'OPY, noun [Gr. abscission, of and to cut.]

The cutting off, or omission of the last letter or syllable of a word; as di for dii.

Apocopy

APOC'OPY, n. [Gr. abscission, of and to cut.] The cutting off, or omission of the last letter or syllable of a word; as di for dii.

Apocrisary

APOC'RISARY, noun [Gr. from answer, to answer.]

Anciently a resident in an imperial city, in the name of a foreign church or bishop, answering to the modern nuncio. He was a proctor, in the emperor's court, to negotiate, and transact business for his constituent.

Apocrustic

APOCRUST'IC, adjective [Gr. from, to drive from.]

Astringent; repelling.

APOCRUST'IC, noun A medicine which constringes, and repels the humors; a repellent.

Apocrypha

APOC'RYPHA, noun [Gr. from, to conceal.]

Literally such things as are not published; but in an appropriate sense, books whose authors are not known; whose authenticity, as inspired writings, is not admitted, and which are therefore not considered a part of the sacred canon of the scripture. When the Jews published their sacred books, they called them canonical and divine; such as they did not publish, were called apocryphal. The apocryphal books are received by the Romish Church as canonical, but not by Protestants.

Apocryphal

APOC'RYPHAL, adjective Pertaining to the apecrypha; not canonical; of uncertain authority or credit; false; fictitious.

Apocryphally

APOC'RYPHALLY, adverb Uncertainly; not indisputably.

Apocryphalness

APOC'RYPHALNESS, noun Uncertainty, as to authenticity; doubtfulness of credit, or genuineness.

Apodal

AP'ODAL, adjective [See apode.]

Without feet; in zoology, destitute of ventral fins.

Apode

AP'ODE, noun [Gr. foot.]

An animal that has no feet, applied to certain fabulous fowls, which are said to have no legs, and also to some birds that have very short legs.

In zoology, the apodes are an order of fishes which have no ventral fins; the first order in Linne's system.

Apodictic

APODIC'TIC,

APODIC'TICAL, adjective [Gr. evidence, of an to show.]

Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction; clearly proving. [Little used.]

Apodictical

APODIC'TICAL, a. [Gr. evidence, of an to show.] Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction; clearly proving. [Little used.]

Apodictically

APODIC'TICALLY, adverb So as to be evident beyond contradiction.

Apodosis

APOD'OSIS, noun [Gr.] The application or latter part of a similitude.

Apogee

AP'OGEE, noun [apogeon, apogeum; Gr. from, and the earth.]

That point in the orbit of a a planet, which is at the greatest distance from the earth. The ancients regarded the earth as fixed in the center of the system, and therefore assigned to the sun, with the planets, an apogee; but the moderns, considering the sun as the center, use the terms perihelion and aphelion, to denote the least and greatest distance of the planets from that orb. The sun's apogee therefore is in strictness, the earth's aphelion. apogee is properly applicable to the moon.

Apogon

AP'OGON, noun A fish of the Mediterranean, the summit of whose head is elevated.

Apollinarian

APOLLINA'RIAN, adjective [From Apollo.]

The apollinarian games, in Roman antiquity, were celebrated in honor of Apollo; instituted adjective R. 542 after the battle of Cannae. They were merely scenical, with exhibitions of music, dances and various mountebank tricks.