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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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4,111 words match “POSE”

product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

ANTIPERISTALTIC a.

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

ANTIPERISTASIS n.

Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

ANTIPHLOGISTIAN n.

An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.

ANTIPHLOGISTIC a.

Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. Geo. Eliot.

One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York. -- An`ti*rent"ism, n.

ANTISABBATARIAN n.

One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.

ANTISCRIPTURAL a.

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

Opposed to slavery. -- n.

ANTISOCIALIST n.

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

ANTIVACCINIST n.

One opposed to vaccination.

ANTIVIVISECTIONIST n.

One opposed to vivisection

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.

Pertaining to Aonia, Boeotia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there. Aonian fount, the fountain of Aganippe, at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and sacred to the Muses.

In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.

The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.

Either entirely of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley.

A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.