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A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels. The same mythology commanded the general consent; the same angelology, demonology. Milman.

ng to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.

The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party.

The belief of those in the Church of England who accept many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant.

, as the electric eel, torpedo, etc. -- Animal flower (Zoöl.), a name given to certain marine animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishes, etc. -- Animal heat (Physiol.), the heat generated in the body of a living animal, by means of which the animal…

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

One who maintains the doctrine of animism.

Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.

subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.

Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.

to another law or rule. Different commentators have deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey.

Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

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

The doctrine of antitheists. -- An`ti*the*is"tic, a.

Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.

A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setæ; the sea mouse.

A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.