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Antiscii Antiscians

The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.

Antiscriptural

Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.

Antisepsis

Prevention of sepsis by excluding or destroying microorganisms.

Antiseptic

a substance which kills or retards the growth of microorganisms, especially when used for protection against infection; a substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona, and many other agents sold commercially.

Antiseptical Antiseptic

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive.

Antisocial

Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

Antisocialist

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

Antisolar

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180/ distant from the sun.

Antispasmodic

Good against spasms. A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.

Antispast

A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#).

Antispastic

Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another. Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic. An antispastic agent.

Antisplenetic

Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. An antisplenetic medicine.

Antistrophe

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.

Antithesis

An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, /The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself./ /He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen./

Antithet

An antithetic or contrasted statement.

Antithetical Antithetic

Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.

Antitoxine Antitoxin

A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

Antitragus

A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

Antitrochanter

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

Antitropous Antitropal

At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle.

antitrust

opposed to trusts, monopolies, or other large combinations of business or capital which threaten fair competition; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices; -- of laws and regulations.

antitussive

a medicament used to suppress or relieve coughing; an antitussive substance.

Antitype

That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

Antitypical

Of or pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type.

Antitypy

Opposition or resistance of matter to force.

Antivenin

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom; also, the component of such a serum which is antitoxic to the venom.

Antizymotic

Preventing fermentation or decomposition. An agent so used.

Antler

The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.

Antlia

The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

Antoecians Antoeci

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

Antonomasia

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.

Antonomastic

Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia.

Antonym

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.

Antorbital

Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. The antorbital bone.

Antozone

A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

Antrum

A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus

Antrustion

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises

Anubis

An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits to judgment, represented by a human figure with the head of a jackal, dog or fox.

Anunnaki

any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii; servitors of the gods.

Anura

One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

Anurous

Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

Anury

Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.

Anus

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

Anvil

To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor.

Anxietude

The state of being anxious; anxiety.

Anxiety

Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

Anxious

Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

Anxiously

In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

Anxiousness

The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.

Any

To any extent; in any degree; at all.

Anybody

Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.

Anyhow

In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event.

Anyone

One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words.]

Anything

In any measure; anywise; at all.

Aonian

Pertaining to Aonia, in B/otia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there.

Aorist

A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

Aoristic

Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense.

Aorta

The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

aortal

of or pertaining to the aorta.

Aortic

Of or pertaining to the aorta.

Aotus

a genus of nocturnal South American monkeys with large eyes; the owl monkeys; the douroucoulis. See douroucouli.

Aoudad

An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus lervia, formerly Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs; the wild sheep of northern Africa; -- called also Barbary sheep. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

Apace

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.

Apaches

A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc.

Apagoge

An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

Apagogical Apagogic

Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary.

Apair

To impair or become impaired; to injure.

Apanthropy

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

Aparejo

A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

Apart

Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.

apartheid

segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.

Apartment

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

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