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Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

Of or pertaining to anchylosis.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. "Anecdotical traditions." Bolingbroke.

Same as Anæsthesia, Anæsthetic.

Soothing.

A narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank.

Not idiomatic. [R.] Landor.

Pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual.

Of or pertaining to animism. Huxley. Tylor.

Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.

onscious attention; having an indefinite, relatively passive, conscious being; characteristic of the "fringe" or "margin" of consciousness.

Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion. Anomalistic month. See under Month. -- Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic…

With irregularity.

Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. -- An*tag`o*nis"tic*al*ly, adv. They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic. Milman.

Antisyphilitic. [R.]

Good against apoplexy. -- n.

Opposed to all human government. [R.]

Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

A remedy against gout.