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A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical. [Written also antimoniate.]

Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.

Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.

A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

Opposition to vaccination. London Times.

An antivaccinist.

Same as Appanage.

fferent curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best ap…

Freedom from spherical aberration.

An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type.

In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games.

ng alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn.

That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment. "Wealth . . . the appanage of wit." Swift.

A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. "An apparitional soul." Tylor.

See Appanage.

See Appurtenance.

The quality of being apportioned or in proportion. [Obs. & R.]

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott.