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f distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.

of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

A dependency; a dependent territory.

Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.

ctive in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. Arriere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. -- Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.

An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.

A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.

Dependent on the atmosphere. [R.] In am so atmospherical a creature. Pope. Atmospheric engine, a steam engine whose piston descends by the pressure of the atmosphere, when the steam which raised it is condensed within the cylinder. Tomlinson. -- Atmospheric line (Steam Engin.), the equilibrium line of an indicator car…

Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys (Mus.), the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, its fifth below (fourth above), or subdominant, and its relative min…

count or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.

Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.

Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.

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

A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of Russia.

Self-generated; produced independently.

Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions. Unconscious or automatic reasoning. H. Spenser. Automatic arts, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery. Ure.

Independent in government; having the right or power of self- government.

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.