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Of or pertaining to a chariot. [R.]

Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its lower valence; as, aurous oxide.

Of or pertaining to auscultation. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious. [R.]

Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Australia. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the monarchy composed of Austria and Hungary.

Of or pertaining to an author. "The authorial Hare.

Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic sort." Carlyle. -- Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to an autocrator; absolute. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Pertaining to an autograph, or one's own handwriting; of the nature of an autograph.

Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas l…

Of or pertaining to autoplasty.

Pertaining to autopsy; autoptical. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or causing, autotoxæmia.

Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.

Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood. Bryant.

Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.