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One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.

An abnormal condition due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. -- An`ox*æ"mic, *e"mic (#), a.

The state or condition of being antecedent; priority. Fothherby.

The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history. J. H. Newman. If the troops . . . prove worthy of their antecedents, the victory is surely ours. Gen. G. McClellan.

t of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming.

ed canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. [Written also anue.] Bacon.

The condition or state of being free from fever.

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

The second of two clauses forming an antithesis.

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

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."

y of Christians, and particularly to the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second and third centuries. -- Apostolic church, the Christian church; -- so called on account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order. The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem were called apostolic churche…

er suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.

ignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.