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Contradiction. [Obs.]

A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical. [Written also antimoniate.]

A compound of antimonious acid and a base or basic radical.

A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

y most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.

Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.

So as to be evident beyond contradiction.

Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.

The diplomatic agent of the pope highest in grade, superior to a nuncio.

ent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

e or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

In a curve referred to polar coördinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.

ough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch.

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub. Bradley.

parate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

sure of an angle (Math.), that in which the unit angle has its measuring arc equal to the radius of the circle.

s overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. A born aristocrat, bred radical. Mrs. Browning.

ttle. -- Under arms, armed and equipped and in readiness for battle, or for a military parade. Arm's end, Arm's length, Arm's reach. See under Arm.