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To origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis. Bastian.

Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.

The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness. Coxe.

The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.

Sandy; as, arenarious soil.

A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body. Dunglison.

Division into areolæ. Dana.

A coating or overlaying with silver. [R.] Johnson.

The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every…

Caviling; subtle disputation. [Obs.]

The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram. [Obs.] Bacon.

A soothsaying; a foretelling. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony. Mendelssohn wants the ariose beauty of Handel; vocal melody is not his forte; the interest of his airs harmonic. Foreign Quart. Rev.

In the smooth and melodious style of an air; ariose.

a country raises, classifies, arranges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constant…

The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.

The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

The act of taking away. [Obs.] "This arreption was sudden." Bp. Hall.

away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.