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that which precedes. South. The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents. Max Miller.

duce beforehand, or before the proper or normal time; to cause to occur earlier or prematurely; as, the advocate has anticipated a part of his argument.

The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine. -- An`ti*log`a*rith"mic, a.

Either entirely of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley.

Applied to a gastrula when the blastorope does not entirely up.

or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb.

Severely critical.

Severely criticism.

rtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet. The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king. Dewey.

Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall. Brande & C.

ek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Pope.

elper; an auxiliary; a means of help. Four assistants who his labor share. Pope. Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. Mrs. Chapone.

e Indicator card.) -- Atmospheric pressure, the pressure exerted by the atmosphere, not merely downwards, but in every direction. In amounts to about 14.7 Ibs. on each square inch. -- Atmospheric railway, one in which pneumatic power, obtained from compressed air or the creation of a vacuum, is the propelling force.…

An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing. Rush.

debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. The earl marshal attac…

A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.

, to rely for authority. [Obs.] Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. Sir P. Sidney.

Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.

flatter, or offend. Pope. Men who were averse to the life of camps. Macaulay. Pass by securely as men averse from war. Micah ii. 8.