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groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]

A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr.

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

n the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.…

Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.

ship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

One of the Arachnoidea.

Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. "One archetypal mind." Gudworth.

A subdivision of the Crinoidea.

A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.

In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet. The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king. Dewey.

One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj.

One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.

ormerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata.

or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas.

Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant. The one [idea] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it. Locke.

d for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are…

One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.