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ANIMADVERSAL n.

The faculty of perceiving; a percipient. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

ANIMADVERSION n. 4 definitions

ice; direct or simple perception. [Obs.] The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

ANIMADVERSIVE a.

anvill. I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

ANNIVERSARILY adv.

Annually. [R.] Bp. Hall.

ANNIVERSARY a. 4 definitions

Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

Anniversary. [Obs.] Dryden.

A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.

A turning from with dislike; aversion. [Obs.or Archaic] Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor.

AVERSE a. 3 definitions

Turned away or backward. [Obs.] The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden.

AVERSELY adv. 2 definitions

Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.

The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.

AVERSION n. 3 definitions

A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

BERING SEA CONTROVERSY n.

A controversy (1886 --93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the clai…

BOULEVERSEMENT n.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

BUNDES-VERSAMMLUNG n.

See Legislature, Switzerland.

A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

CONTRAVERSION n.

A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.

CONTROVERSAL a. 2 definitions

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

CONTROVERSARY a.

Controversial. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.