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See Annals.

A writer of annals. The monks . . . were the only annalists in those ages. Hume.

Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.

To record in annals. Sheldon.

in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." Macaulay. "The annals of our religion." Rogers.

The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

To name. [R.]

Paronomasia; punning.

A genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order Anonaceæ, including the soursop.

Pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

Before birth. Shelley.

A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns,…

Belonging to the antennæ. Owen.

The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

Opposed to the constitution; unconstitutional.

hird Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

Opposed to monarchial government. Bp. Benson. Addison.

An enemy to monarchial government.