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Opposition to imperialism; -- applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matt…

Inimical to bacteria; -- applied esp. to serum for protection against bacterial diseases.

Good against malaria.

Of or pertaining to an aquarium.

Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family. Figures with armorial signs of race and birth. Wordsworth. Armorial bearings. See Arms, 4.

Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system.

The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.

Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical.

Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. Coxe.

Of or pertaining to an atrium.

Auditory. [R.]

Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to an author. "The authorial Hare.

Of or pertaining to bacteria.

Continuing two months. [R.]

In two rows or series.

n the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. "To give a public burial." Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air- tight, for the preservation of a dead body. -- Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart…

Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.

Of or pertaining to a cemetery. "Cemeterial cells." [R.] Sir T. Browne.