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Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West.

particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.

A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold.

proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.

An initial sound, as of a word or syllable.

nt, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

Straightway; at once. [Obs.] The same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it. Matt. xiii. 20.

A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word. [R.] J. R. Seeley.

ion, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

e the true time. And antedate the bliss above. Pope. Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth.

Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. "Antelucan worship." De Quincey.

The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl in monosyllable.

Anthropomorphism. Wordsworth.

opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic.

r. And fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage. Wordsworth.

The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine. -- An`ti*log`a*rith"mic, a.

A contradiction between any words or passages in an author. Sir W. Hamilton.

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

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.