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Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.

A making angular; angular formation. Huxley.

A circular or ringlike formation; a ring or belt. Nicholson.

Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations.

Transformation into the form of a human being.

Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed. -- n.

the incus. See Incus. To be on the anvil, to be in a state of discussion, formation, or preparation, as when a scheme or measure is forming, but not matured. Swift.

The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore. De Bary.

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.

Notice; information. [Obs.] Gower.

e or structure; workmanship. The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.

A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.

A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

assuming that atoms are endued with gravity and motion accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. -- Atomic theory, or the Doct…

true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.

Information; advice.

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.

mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.