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Relating to both parents. [R.]

he use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.…

Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines. Milton. Bp. Bull.

Relating to, or like, anaërobies; araërobiotic.

Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief.

Relating to analects; made up of selections; as, an analectic magazine.

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

first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

Relating to respiration.

Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations. Hume.

A prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.

A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.

Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.

Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. opposite, or in the place of.…

Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.

Of or relating to anthrax; as, anthracic blood.

Relating to cannibalism or anthropophagy.

Of or relating to the antelope.