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In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.

A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman.

One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

The faculty of perceiving; a percipient. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that. Dr. H. More.

o give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven. The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice. Knolles.

Pertaining to annunciation; announcing. [R.] Dr. H. More.

The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.

The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.

lternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

xactly opposite or contrary. Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel Hammond.

In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases. Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques. Byron.

ood will and hearty affection towards you is not . . . anything at all quailed. Robynson (More's Utopia).

In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.

Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage…

from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective. --Ap`o*chro"ma*tism (#), n.…

To make an apology or defense. Dr. H. More.

tiq.), a spoon of silver, with the handle terminating in the figure of an apostle. One or more were offered by sponsors at baptism as a present to the godchild. B. Jonson.