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The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

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.

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action. To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. R. Hall. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. Locke.

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Hom…

umber corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine. -- An`ti*log`a*rith"mic, a.

Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule. Different commentators have deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey.

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

lection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

The putting of one case for another.

Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak.

Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.

Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another. [Obs.]

ate of discussion, formation, or preparation, as when a scheme or measure is forming, but not matured. Swift.

To any extent; in any degree; at all. You are not to go loose any longer. Shak. Before you go any farther. Steele.

Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. His Majesty could not keep any secret from anybody. Macaulay.

way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event. Anyhow, it 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.