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Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.

Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton.

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.

Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. Geo. Eliot.

One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York. -- An`ti*rent"ism, n.

One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.

Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.

Opposed to slavery. -- n.

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

One opposed to vaccination.

One opposed to vivisection

Either entirely of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley.

A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun. To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. Macaulay. What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. Appa…

first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation. Circle of perpetual apparition. See under Circle.

ellant jurisdiction." Hallam. Party appellant (Law), the party who appeals; appellant; -- opposed to respondent, or appellee. Tomlins.

Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.