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Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.

An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English. Dryden.

a. Of or pertaining to the English in India, or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages. -- n. One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the East Indies. Anglo-Norman, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Normans, or to the Normans who settled in England. -- n. One of the English Normans, or the…

The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.

before in time; that which precedes. South. The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents. Max Miller.

ion 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 contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

t must be acknowledged to be not a simple selforiginated error. J. H. Newman. Anyhow, the languages of the two nations were closely allied. E. A. Freeman.

A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

s, my correspondent apologized for not answering my letter. To apologize for his insolent language. Froude.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages.

The language of the Arabians.

An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language. Stuart.

One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.

Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramæan; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. -- n.

on of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.…

A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians.

The language of the Armoricans, a Celtic dialect which has remained to the present times.