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The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.

preme intelligent Being. Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. R. Hall. Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. Shipley.

Of or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece. -- n. A native or citizen of Athens.

A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation. Dunglison.

Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity, great atrocity. Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. De Quincey.

f attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder. Abbott.

Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined. Attic base (Arch.), a peculiar form of molded base for a column or pilaster, described by Vitruvius, applied under the Roman Empire to the Ionic and Corinthian a…

A substance which, by irritating the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism.

The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity.

The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Barrow.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Hammond.

Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

y which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

slike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion. Macaulay.

f the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry.

To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.] They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke.

A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. [Obs.]