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That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.

A writer or utterer of aphorisms.

The writer of the Apocalypse.

nd perhaps compiled by the same authors or author. -- Apostolic fathers, early Christian writers, who were born in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added. -- Apostolic king (or majesty), a title gran…

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.

Given to argument; characterized by argument; disputatious; as, an argumentative writer. --Ar`gu*men"ta*tive*ly, adv. -- Ar`gu*men"ta*tive*ness, n.

or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He [was] too artful a writer to set down events in exact historical order. Dryden.

the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers.

One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

lieving the existence of a God; impious; godless; -- applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer. -- A`the*is"tic*al*ly, adv. -- A`the*is"tic*al*ness, n.

Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.

One who composes or writers a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.

One who writers his own life or biography.

to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

A writer of ballads.

uage. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

A writer in short hand; a stenographer. He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon. Gayton.