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to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record. Facts . . . attested by particular pagan authors. Addison.

iar to the Athenians. -- Attic story. See Attic, n. -- Attic style, a style pure and elegant.

The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression.

To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4.

sumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints. With the most arrogant audacity. Joye.

Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. Auditory canal (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.

See Army organization, Switzerland.

Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.

Automatic. [Obs.] "Automatous organs." Sir T. Browne.

ependent upon, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases.

tions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

The tendency of plant organs to grow in a straight line when uninfluenced by external stimuli.

ing to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones. Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. Gray.

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks. Azoic age (Geol.), the age preceding the existence of animal life, or anterior to the paleozoic tome. Azoic is also used as a noun, age…

mologically related to p , v , f , w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. pear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.ptan. The form of lette…

pproaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.

A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algæ, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity…

Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.