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A making angular; angular formation. Huxley.

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

See Annelida.

the existence of; to cause to cease to be. It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Bacon.

nder which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.

One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

Serving to annihilate; destructive.

One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator.

Annihilative.

A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.

One of the Annulata.

Of or pertaining to the Annulata.

A circular or ringlike formation; a ring or belt. Nicholson.

Man worship.

Terminated abruptly by a small, distinct point, as a leaf.

, office, or mission, of an apostle; apostleship. Judas had miscarried and lost his apostolate. Jer. Taylor.

Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals. "Appellate jurisdiction." Blackstone. "Appellate judges." Burke. Appelate court, a court having cognizance of appeals.

lled and known; name; title; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume.

A common name, distinction from a proper name. A common name, 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, s…

After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.