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That which goes before in time; that which precedes. South. The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents. Max Miller.

The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc. Tillotson.

The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king. Lamb.

Anything exactly opposite or contrary. Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel Hammond.

The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. Geo. Eliot.

Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis.

In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases. Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques. Byron.

Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use. Specifically (Anat.),

stimation so obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative rather than analytic.

The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

Anything viewed as a revelation; as disclosure. The new apocalypse of Nature. Carlyle.

Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably.

Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift. He goes to work devising apologies for window curtains. Dickens.

Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.