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One who amputates.

y constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.

Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

Angularly toothed, as certain leaves.

Narrowed.

The act or making narrow; a straitening or contacting. Wiseman.

To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.

A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

An annotator. [R.]

Characterized by annotations; of the nature of annotation.

A writer of annotations; a commentator.

Pertaining to an annotator; containing annotations. [R.]

A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

Pertaining to antiperistasis.

Mammals which have no placenta.

or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. Milton. A wretched and apostate state. Steele.

Apostatical. [R.]

Apostate. An heretical and apostatical church. Bp. Hall.

e faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered. He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in Carlyle.