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One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

One who maintains the doctrine of animism.

Of or pertaining to animism. Huxley. Tylor.

Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.

One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.

An Antinomian. [R.] Bp. Sanderson.

The vermiform appendix.

Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [Obs.]

A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.

A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory. Locke.

Of or pertaining to atoms; relating to atomism. [R.] It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis. Coleridge.

One who advocates autonomy.

See Vital force.

To envelop in mist. [Obs.]

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the…

One who is guilty of bigamy. Ayliffe.

The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.