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Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive.

The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.

Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West.

Age; antiquity. [Obs.] Martin.

armonic. The anharmonic function or ratio of four points abcd on a straight line is the quantity (ac/ad):(bc/bd), where the segments are to regarded as plus or minus, according to the order of the letters.

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

Anhelous; panting. [R.]

Short of breath; panting.

One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.

See Anti-, prefix.

Antisyphilitic. [R.]

A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. opposite, or in the place of.…

Anticipation. [Obs.] Donne.

Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.

Before in time; antecedent. Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Same as Antihelix.

See Antihypnotic.

See Antihypochondriac.

See Antihysteric.

See Antiorgastic.