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One who favors annexation.

An annexationist. [R.]

One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

An annotator. [R.]

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

One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent. Antagonist of Heaven's Almigthy King. Milton. Our antagonists in these controversies. Hooker.

Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. -- An*tag`o*nis"tic*al*ly, adv. They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic. Milman.

Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.

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

The tenets or practice of Antinomians. South.

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

An antivaccinist.

One opposed to vaccination.

One opposed to vivisection

The doctrines of the Arians.

The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.

The religious doctrines or tenets of the Arminians.

The doctrine or theory held by associationists.

One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.

To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. [Obs.] Enough, captain; you have astonished him. [Fluellen had struck Pistol]. Shak. The very cramp-fish [i. e., torpedo] . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland.