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Uniting the chemical rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens; amacratic.

An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.

Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.

Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.

In the form or manner of an amphitheater.

feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.

See Anæsthesia.

Capable of rendering insensible; as, anæsthetic agents.

The process of anæsthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anæsthetics.

To render insensible by an anæsthetic. Encyc. Brit.

Destitute of anthers. Gray.

hority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers. Priestley.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema. -- A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Anathematization. [Obs.] We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.

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

To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton.

One who pronounces an anathema. Hammond.

Same as Anæsthesia, Anæsthetic.

Of unequal strength.

A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).