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Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia. -- An`to*no*mas"tic*al*ly, adv.

Antonomasia.

See Antiorgastic.

That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.

= Dumbness.

Incomplete or faulty development.

Not plastic or easily molded.

ich 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.]

An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.

Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable. -- Ap*peas"a*ble*ness, n.

to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.

The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.

One who appeases; a pacifier.

Tending to appease.

A crossbow. See Arbalest.

A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c

The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.

A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.