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Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia. -- An`to*no*mas"tic*al*ly, adv.

See Antiorgastic.

Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense.

Of or pertaining to the aorta.

Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.

In an apathetic manner.

Apathetic; une motional. [R.]

Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure.

Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form. -- A*phet"ic*al*ly, adv. New Eng. Dict.

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

Pertaining to aphorisms, or having the form of an aphorism.

of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style. The method of the book is aphoristic. De Quincey.

In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily.

Without light.

A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate.

Venereal. [R.] Dunglison.

erent curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best apla…

Not plastic or easily molded.