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Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.

Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.

In the form or manner of an amphitheater.

A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.

Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.

A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora.

not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral. [R.] Smart.

size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser.

Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray.

The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.

An embrace. [Obs.] An humble amplexation of those sacred feet. Bp. Hall.

Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. Gray.

To enlarge. [R.] To maintain and ampliate the external possessions of your empire. Udall.

Enlargement; amplification. [R.]

o that which is already known or received. "All bodies possess power of attraction" is an ampliative judgment; because we can think of bodies without thinking of attraction as one of their immediate primary attribute. Abp. W. Thomson.