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A member of the People's party. -- Pop`u*lis"tic (#), a.

Populousness.[Obs.]

ants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country. Heaven, yet populous, retains Number sufficient to possess her realms. Milton.

An accessory process in many lumbar vertebræ.

Good against apoplexy. -- n.

Of or pertaining to anthropopathy. [R.] -- An`thro*po*path"ic*al*ly, adv. The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. H. Rogers.

elings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

One who ascribes human feelings to deity.

Man eaters; cannibals. Shak.

Relating to cannibalism or anthropophagy.

One who east human flesh. [Ludicrous] Shak.

A cannibal. W. Taylor.

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

Human nature. [R.] Gladstone.

Same as Antapoplectic.

One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apoplectic songs or hymns.

A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]

Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n.