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(Psychol.) Not subject to conscious attention; having an indefinite, relatively passive, conscious being; characteristic of the "fringe" or "margin" of consciousness.

The anoint with oil. [Obs.] Holinshed.

mon rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly. Darwin.…

le Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become thems…

comparable. What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course Holland. This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton.

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.

A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.

e of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.

Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.

tion, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.

One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.

, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.

An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.

ecif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by others.

A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.

That branch of theology which defends the Holy Scriptures, and sets forth the evidence of their divine authority.

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

The dignity or office of the pope, as the holder of the apostolic see.