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tallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene.

Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; -- opposed to episkeletal.

mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.

One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff- Herzog Encyc.

Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. -- n.

g a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic. -- Id`i*o*path"ic*al*ly, adv.

One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.

Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable. Neither is it ill air only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbors. Bacon. There 's some ill planet reigns. Shak.

A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation. [R.] Good.

ive; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant, transitory, transitive, or objective. A cognition is an immanent act of mind. Sir W. Hamilton. An immanent power in the life of the world. Hare.

he doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.

iate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop. South.

as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion. Immersion lens, a microscopic objective of short focal distance designed to work with a drop of liquid, as oil, between the front lens and the slide, so that this lens is practically immersed.…

dise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brasil, etc.

The act or practice of importing, or bringing into a country or state; -- opposed to exportation.

One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.

contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose. The truth hereof I will net rashly pugn, or overboldly affirm. Peacham.

Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy. [R.]

muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.