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The act abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.

Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.

In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton.

estals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

gy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke.

The measure of a thing; dimensions; size.

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

ence of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art.

A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. [Obs.] Shak.

grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

The fruit of Ammi Copticum, syn. Carum Ajowan, used both as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

ich it is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are rare, life certainly existed in this period. -- n.

To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside. "When the rage allays." Shak.

State of being aloof. Rogers (1642). The . . . aloofness of his dim forest life. Thoreau.

The simplest rudiments; elements. The very alphabet of our law. Macaulay. Deaf and dumb alphabet. See Dactylology.

Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor.

The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.