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world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); --…

itable; suitableness or conformity; consistency. The agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature. Pearce.

quality of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay.

being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.

ibution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action. What news among the merchants Shak. Human sacrifices were practiced among them. Hume. Divide that gold amongst you. Marlowe. Whether they quarreled among themselves, or with their neighbors. Addison.

The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton. Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. Byron.

The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.

Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx.

A machine or automaton in the form of a human being.

Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy. [R.]

The quality of being angelic; excellence more than human.

l; to render angelic. It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man. W. Taylor.

f the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the…

Opposed to all human government. [R.]

Like or related to man; human. [R.] Owen.

The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man.

The science of the human species as to geographical distribution and environment. Broadly, it includes industrial, commercial, and political geography, and that part of ethnology which deals with distribution and physical environment. -- An`thro*po*ge*og"ra*pher (#), n. -- An`thro*po*ge`o*graph"ic*al (#), a.…

That branch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations. P. Cyc.…

A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.