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Deviating from the proper order of time. -- An`ti*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.

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

ng up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Shak.

A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.

Good against scrofulous disorders. Johnson. Wiseman.

One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Written also anoura.]

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

A disorder of speech in which words can be uttered but not intelligibly joined together.

A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.

A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.

An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.

An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha.

An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels.

One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

the Christian church; -- so called on account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order. The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem were called apostolic churches. -- Apostolic constitutions, directions of a nature similar to the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same authors or autho…

Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

le, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.