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Of or pertaining to animism. Huxley. Tylor.

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

The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. Shipley.

Before birth. Shelley.

To put before; to prefer. [Obs.] Bailey.

Pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man. "Anthropologic wisdom." Kingsley. -- An`thro*po*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to anthromorphism. Hadley. -- An`thro*po*mor"phic*al*ly, adv.

A verse said before and after the psalms. Shipley.

from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.

A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus. Huxley.

Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary. Bp. Berkeley.

A place where apes are kept. [R.] Kingsley.

An oily liquid derived from parsley.

d at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley.

A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation. Motley.

The calculation and explanation of a nativity. [Obs.] Bailey.

e sun. To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. Macaulay. What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished…

on one for aid; to make earnest request. I appeal to the Scriptures in the original. Horsley. They appealed to the sword. Macaulay.

e will judge the world in righteousness. Acts xvii. 31. Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appoint the meeting. Shak.