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A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). Eng. Cyc.

Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. Sir J. Herschel.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.

Pertaining to accremention.

The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

Additive. [R.] Sir J. Herschel.

Added; additional. Parkhurst.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. "Adscititious evidence." Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv.

al; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

See Eaglestone.

Inability to swallow.

A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A.

tion, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.

Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements.

Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] Coleridge.

Opposed to the constitution; unconstitutional.

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

A disbeliever in the existence of God.

The second of two clauses forming an antithesis.

An antithetic or contrasted statement. Bacon.