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To make free; to enfranchise. Johnson.

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.

Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.

An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage. Foxe.

Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.

Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.

Impotence; sterility.

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

See Agister.

Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.

The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positi…

Contention for a prize; a contest. [Obs.] Blount.

One who contends for the prize in public games. [R.]

; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

In an agonistic manner.

The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.