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English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.

s, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

he act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.

A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

The announcement of the incarnation, made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary.

To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

re death; -- generally used adjectivelly; as, an ante- mortem statement; ante-mortem examination.

containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

Divination by inspecting a burning coal.

nction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations. P. Cyc.

Divination by the entrails of human being.

The art of discovering or judging of a man's character, passions. and inclinations from a study of his visible features. [R.]

tled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

One opposed to vaccination.

d to be not a simple selforiginated error. J. H. Newman. Anyhow, the languages of the two nations were closely allied. E. A. Freeman.

A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound. -- Aph*thon"gal, a.

Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.

Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciæ which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.

The calculation and explanation of a nativity. [Obs.] Bailey.