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The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation. Barrow.

The act of anatomizing.

An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.

Exaction of forced service; compulsion. [Obs.] Speed.

Any disorder of the vasomotor system; neurosis of a blood vessel. --An`gi*o*neu*rot"ic (#), a.

The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.

A making angular; angular formation. Huxley.

The act or making narrow; a straitening or contacting. Wiseman.

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception. [Obs.] The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.

ct of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro- chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation. Faraday.

The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.

One who favors annexation.

Annexation. [R.] Shak.

An annexationist. [R.]

act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.

One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

Alliteration. [Obs.] Tyrwhitt.