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A disease due to inhaling the poisonous fumes present in the manufacture of aniline.

The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.

The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

An anomaly; a deviation from rule. Hooker.

Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

Opposition to government in general. [R.]

A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party. [R.]

The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.

Anthropomorphism. Wordsworth.

The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

Human nature. [R.] Gladstone.

Opposition to imperialism; -- applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matt…

Opposition to, or hatred of, Semites, esp. Jews. -- An`ti- Sem"ite (#), n. -- An`ti-Sem*it"ic (#), a.

Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.

Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism. [R.] Selden.

Opposition to the body politic of citizens. [Obs.] Carlyle.

The tenets or practice of Antinomians. South.

Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. Warburton.

The doctrine of antitheists. -- An`ti*the*is"tic, a.