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State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols 2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke.

An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

als, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.

In a state of discord; out of harmony; as, he is ajar with the world.

owder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

finitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something. I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper.

ffect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.

Sexual generation; amphigony.

Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation. [R.]

ef, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.

l or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

Corrective of acrimony of the humors.

Of or pertaining to antimony. -- n. (Med.)

Combined or prepared with antimony; as, antimoniated tartar.

Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, antimonic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

Combined with or containing antimony; as, antimoniureted hydrogen. [Written also antimoniuretted.]

A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.

e point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]