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Of or pertaining to anthromorphism. Hadley. -- An`thro*po*mor"phic*al*ly, adv.

to anthropomorphism. Kitto.

Anthropomorphism. Wordsworth.

f discovering or judging of a man's character, passions. and inclinations from a study of his visible features. [R.]

An antimask. [Obs. or R.] Performed by knights and ladies of his court In nature of an antic. Ford.

ime; to cause to occur earlier or prematurely; as, the advocate has anticipated a part of his argument.

with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

d Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. South.

ertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, antimonic acid.

ertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

fferent commentators have deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey.

Diametrically opposite. His antipodal shadow." Lowell.

One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king. Lamb.

canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

ioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser.

ctly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from…

or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."

e of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.…

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