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Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.

tian church or era, anterior to the first council of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

"Lords of antic fame." Phaer.

A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr.

connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

s that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. Mosheim.

ply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe. "Antique words." Spenser.

quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

-- applied to things; as, anxious labor. The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares. Milton.

xtent; in any degree; at all. You are not to go loose any longer. Shak. Before you go any farther. Steele.

Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

to dwell there. Aonian fount, the fountain of Aganippe, at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and sacred to the Muses.

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.

That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.