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One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc. Tillotson.

One who ascribes human feelings to deity.

One who east human flesh. [Ludicrous] Shak.

One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.

One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.

One who anticipates.

One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. Mosheim.

One who has an antipathy. [R.] "Antipathist of light." Coleridge.

Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

ptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.

One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York. -- An`ti*rent"ism, n.

The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please. He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform. Macaulay.

One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be.

One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.

Pertaining to Aonia, Boeotia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there. Aonian fount, the fountain of Aganippe, at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and sacred to the Muses.

e, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

One who is destitute of feeling.