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A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc. ; an ancient institution.

The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Also written anourous.]

Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present are there any other houses like it "Who will show us any good" Ps. iv. 6.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.

One who is destitute of feeling.

Destitute of skin. Brande & C.

Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.

Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels.

A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.

A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.

e who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.

A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift. He goes to work devising apologies for window curtains. Dickens.

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

ome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem were called apostolic churches. -- Apostolic constitutions, directions of a nature similar to the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same authors or author. -- Apostolic fathers, early Christian writers, who were born in the first century, and thus touched on the age…

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.