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Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation. [R.]

Relating to both parents. [R.]

Sexual propagation. [R.]

A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

An embrace. [Obs.] An humble amplexation of those sacred feet. Bp. Hall.

Enlargement; amplification. [R.]

The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.

The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.

Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism. T. Warton.

To refer to, or put into, a wrong time. [R.] Lowell.

Containing an anachronism; anachronistic. -- An*ach"ro*nous*ly, adv.

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

h American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

The process of anæsthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anæsthetics.

Analogue.

The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.

The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation. Barrow.