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An abstract term. The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety." J. S. Mill.

To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin "pater" is the analogue of the English "father."

To anticipate; to make before the true time. And antedate the bliss above. Pope. Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth.

One who anticipates.

Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear. The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence. Macaulay.

A (patented) alloy of aluminium and silver, with a density of about 2.9.

A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic.

The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.

o as you are bidden. His spiritual attendants adjured him, as he loved his soul, to emancipate his brethren. Macaulay.

To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.

One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

The rank or patent of a baronet.

Costive; constipated.

Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume.

Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.

A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow. [Slang]

ly or abusively. [Low] -- To blow over, to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over. -- To blow up, to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or stea…

Constipated; costive.