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Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming from another, esp. in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

Same as Auto-intoxication.

Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants.

Eradication. [R.] De Quincey.

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.

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

The art or science of flying.

Avid.

Eagerly; greedily.

Vision. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

The act of flying; flight; evaporation. [Obs.]

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. The avulsion of two polished superficies. Locke.

A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. "Axiomatical truth." Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. I. Taylor.

By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom.

A baboon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies.