Ammonius Saccas
Ammonius Saccas. A Greek Philosopher. Founder Of The Neoplatonic School, Is Said To Have Been In His Early Days A Porter In His Parents Were Christian, Hut He Himself Is Said To Have Abandon At His Early Religion, In Which He Had Been Instructed By Clemens Alexandrinus. And To Have ...
Ammunition
Ammunition. Sometimes This Name Is Given To Cannon And Mortars, As Well As To The Projectiles And Explosive Substances Employed With Them; But More Usually A. Is Considered To Apply To The Latter—such As Shot,.shell, Gunpowder, Cartridges, Fuses, Wads, Grenades. Muskets, Swords, Bayonets, And Other Small Arms Are Sometimes, But ...
Amnesty
Amnesty (ante). In The Absence Of Specific Statutes On The Subject, The Exercise_ Of A. In The United States Was Assumed To Lie With The President. Washington, Without Participation By Congress, Granted A., Or Pardon, To Persons Who Took Part M The "whisky Rebellion." .john Adams Proclaimed Full Pardon Of ...
Amphitheater
Amphitheater, A Spacious Building, Generally Elliptical In Form, Used By The Romans For Exhibiting Gladiatorial Combats, Fights Of Wild Beasts, And Other Spectacles. The A. Differed From A Theater For Dramatic Performances (theatrum) In This, That Whereas The Theater Had Only A Semicircle Of Seats Fronting The Stage, The A. ...
Amputation
Amputation (lat. Amputo, I Lop Or Prune) Is The Cutting Off Of A Part Which, By Its Diseased Condition, Endangers, Or May Endanger, The Safety Of The Whole Body. The A. Of A Limb Was In Ancient Times Attended With Great Danger Of The Patient's Dying Dur Ing Its Performance, ...
Amulet
Amulet, Any Object Worn As A Charm. It Is Often A Stone Or Piece Of Metal, With An Inscription Or Some Figures Engraved On It, And Is Generally Suspended From The Neck, And Worn As A Preservative Against Sickness, Witchcraft, Etc. Its Origin, Like Its Name, Seems To Be Oriental. ...
Amygdaloid
Amyg'daloid (from Ainygdalus, An Almond), A Rock, Consisting Of A Basis Of Some Kind Of Trap-rock, Very Frequently Of Greenstone, Forming Numerous Roundish Or Oval Cells, Which Are Filled With Nodules, Often Of Calcareous Spar Or Of Zeolitic Minerals. The Cells Are Not Of Large Size, But Even Those Which ...
Amyraut
Amyraut, Moyse, 1596,1664; An Eminent French Protestant Theologian And Meta Physician, Of An Illustrious Family From Alsace. His Father Set Him To Study Law, And Lie Made Rapid Progress In The University Of Poictiers; But On His Way Home Met At Sauniur The Protestant Minister, Bonchereau, Who Took Him To ...
Amyridacle
Amyrida'cle, A Natural Order Of Dicotyledonous Or Exogenous Plants, Consisting Of Trees And Shrubs, Natives Of Tropical Countries, Remarkable For The Abundance Of Their Fragrant Balsamic Or Resinous Juice. They Have Compound Leaves, Occasionally With Stipules And Pellucid (lots. The Flowers Are In Racemes Or Panicles; The Calyx Persistent. With ...
Anabaptists
Anabaptists, A Term Applied Generally To Those Christians Who Reject Infant Bap Tism, And Administer The Rite Only To Adults; So That When A New Member Joins Them, He Or She Is Baptized A Second Time, The First Being Considered No Baptism. The Name (gr. To Baptize Again) Is Thus ...
Anacharis
Anach'aris, A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Hydrocharidece (q.v.), Of Which A Species, A. Aleinastruin (elodea Canadensts Of Some Botanists), Has Recently Become Natu Ralized In Britain, Suddenly Appearing In So Great Abundance As To Impede The Navigation Of Some Rivers And Canals. It Is A Native Of ...
Anacharsis
Anachar'sis, A Scythian And Brother Of King Saulios, Visited Athens In The Time Of Solon, With Whom Lie Lived On Terms Of Intimacy, Hut Whose Abilities For Framing A Con Stitution He Does Not Seem To Have Estimated Highly. Incited By A Love Of Learning, Lie Subsequently Traveled Through Several ...
Anagram
Anagram (from The Greek Area, Backwards, And Gramma, Writing), The Transposition Of The Letters Of A Word, Phrase, Or Short Sentence, So As. To Form A New Word Or.sentence. It Originally Signified A Simple Reversal Of The Order Of Letters, But Has Long Borne The Sense In Which It Is ...
Anal Glands
Anal Glands. Under This Name May Be Described A Large And Diversified Group Of Glands, Found In Many Animals, And Generally Characterized By The Disagreeable Odor Of Their Secretion. Those To Which The Name Most Strictly Belongs Are Of Frequent Occur Rence Among Carnivora And Rodents; They Consist Of Follicles ...
Analogy
Analogy, A Term Originally Greek. And Which Signifies An Agreement Or Correspond Ence In Certain Respects Between Things In Other Respects Different. Euclid Employed It To Signify Proportion, Or The Equality Of Ratios, And It Has Retained This Sense In Mathematics; But It Is A Term Little Used In The ...
Analysis
Analysis (gr.), The Resolution Of A Whole In To Its Component Parts. In Mental Philosophy, This Term Is Applied To The Logical Treatment Of An Idea So As To Resolve It Into Other Ideas Which Combine To Form It. A Judgment Or Proposition May Thus Also Be Analyzed. The Opposite ...
Analysis_2
Analysis, In Chemistry, Is The Term Applied To That Department Of Experimental Science Which Has For Its Object The Chemical Disunion Or Separation Of The Constituents Of A Compound Substance: Thus, The Resolution Of Water Into Its Components, Hydrogen And Oxygen; Of Common Salt Into Chlorine And Sodium; Of Marble ...
Anatolia
Anatolia (gr. Anatole, The East, I.e., From Constantinople) Is The Modern Name For Asia Minor; Turkish, Anadoli. It May Be Considered As Coincident With The Peninsula ; The Boundary Line On The E. Between It And Armenia And Mesopotamia, Not Being Natu Ral, Cannot Be Well Defined. The Area Of ...
Anatwey
Anat'wey (in Law). While The Study And Practice Of A., Or The Art Of Dissecting The Human Body, Were Necessary To The Pursuit Of Surgical Knowledge, There Were, Until The Year 1832, No Sufficient Legal Means In Britain Of Procuring Dead Bodies For Anatomical Purposes; And The Consequence Was, The ...
Anaxagoras
Anaxag'oras, One Of The Most Eminent Philosophers Of The Ionic School, Was B. At Clazomenw, In Ionia, 500 U.c. He Belonged To A Wealthy And Distinguished Family, Which Circumstance May Have Enabled Him To Devote Himself Exclusively To Intellectual Pursuits. Yet He Does Not Seem To Have Entered Into The ...
Anaximawder
Anaximawder, A Greek Mathematician And Philosopher, The Son Of Praxiades, And The Disciple And Friend Of Males, Was B. At Miletus 610 B. C. , And D. In 546. His Prin Cipal Study Was Mathematics. He Is Said To Have Discovered The Obliquity Of The Ecliptic, And Certainly Taught It. ...
Anbury
An'bury, A Disease To Which Turnips Are Liable, And Which Often Proves Of Serious Importance To Farmers, Destroying The Crop Of Entire Fields. It Is Sometimes Called Club Root, Because Of The Knobs Or Tubercular Excrescences Which Form Upon The Root. The Root, Instead Of Swelling Into One Turnip Of ...
Ancelot
Ancelot, Jacques-anskse-pourcanre-fnancots, A French Poet, B. Feb. 9, 1794, At Havre, Where His Father Was Clerk Of The Chamber Of Commerce. The Latter Being A Well-informed Gentleman, Delighting In Verse, Early Taught His Son To Recite Passages From The French Poets. A. Was From The First Intended For Active Life ...
Anchor
Anchor, An Implement For Retaining A Ship In A Particular Spot, By Temporarily Chaining It To The Bed Of A Sea Or River. Many Forms Of A. Were Made By The Ancients; Some Were Merely Large Stones; Others, Crooked Pieces Of Wood, Weighted To Make Them Sink In Water, The ...
Anciiovy
Anciio'vy, Engraulis Enehrctsieholus, A Small Fish, About A Span Long, Much Esteemed For Its Rich And Peculiar Flavor. It Is Not Much Longer Than The Middle Finger, Thicker In Proportion Than The Herring, To Which It Has A General Resemblance; The Head Is Sharp Pointed, And The Under Jaw Much ...
Ancillon
Ancil'lon, A French Family Who, After The Revocation Of The Edict Of Nantes. Migrated From Metz Into Prussia.—dav1d A. Studied Theology At Geneva, Was Afterwards Pastor Of The French Reformed Colony At Hanau, And D. In Berlin In 1692.—charles, Son Of The Former,. Was B. At Metz, July 28, 1659, ...
Ancona
Anco'na, The Capital Of A Province In Italy Of The Same Name, Lat.43' 38' N., And Long. 13° 35' E. It Is Situated On A On-moat/in, Of The Adriatic Coast. And. Risine. In The Form Of An Amphitheater, Presents A Picturesque Appearance From The Sea. It Is The Seat Of ...
Anderson
Anderson, Join, F.r.s., Professor Of Natural Philosophy In The University Of Glasgow, And Founder Of The Eminently Useful Institution Bearing His Name, Was B, In The Parish Of Roseneath, Dumbartonshire, In 1726. He Studied At The University Of Glasgow, In Which, In His 30th Year, He Was Appointed Professor Of ...
Andes
An'des, The Great Mountain Chain Of South America, Extending In Nearly Parallel With The Pacific, Along Almost The Whole Length Of The Continent, The Chain Falls Short Of The Isthmus Of Darien; Between Which And The Atrato—a River Falling Into The Caribbean Sea—it Gradually Subsides Into A Merely Undulating Country. ...
Andkkuy
Andkkuy', A T., Formerly Of Bokhara, But Now Of Afghanistan, Central Asia, About 200 M. S. Of Bokhara, On A River Flowing N. Towards The Jilmin, But Only Part Of Which Has As Yet Been Traced. It Lies On The High-road To Herat, And Is Much Exposed To The Attacks ...
Andover Theological Seminary
Andover 'theological Seminary, At Andover, Mass., Founded In 1308, And Endowed By Samuel Abbot Of Boston, John Phillips, Jr., And Plicebe Phillips Of Andover; Moses Brown And William Bartlett Of Newburyport, And .john Norris. Since The Founding The Funds Have Been Increased By Large Donations, And Now Amount To $600,000. ...
Andrassy
Andrassy, Grula, Count, B. 1823; Of An Old And Noble Hungarian Family. Ile Was In The Presburg Diet, 1847-48; Lord-lieutenant Of Zemplen Co.; And Led The Militia Against The Austrians. He Was Hungarian Envoy To Turkey, And, 1849-57, An Exile In France And England. Returning Home, He Was A Member ...
Androm Eda
Androm Eda, A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Ericarea (q.v .), Distinguished By A 5-valved Naked Capsule, Which Splits Up Through The Back Of The Cells; Anthers With Two Awns, And A Globose Corolla With The Orifice Contracted. The Species, Which Are Pretty Numerous, Have Very Much The ...
Andros
Andros, Sir Edmund, 1637-1714; Son Of An Officer In The English Royal Household, A Major In Prince Rupert's Dragoons. In 1674, He Was Sent To America As Governor Of The Colony Of New York, And To Him Sir Anthony Colve, The Governor During The Tem Porary Dutch Supremacy, Surrendered Without ...
Anemometer
Anemometer (gr. Ancinns, The Wind,. And Metron, A Measure; Fr. Ger. Windmesser), An Instrun.ent For Measuring The Strength And Velocity Of The Wind. The Simplest And Best A. Is '.hat Which Is Generally Known As Robinson's Hemispherical-cup A. It Consists Of Four Hollow Hemispheres Or Cups Fixed To The Ends ...
Anemone
Anemone, A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Ranunculaerm, Having An Involucre Of Three Divided Lea ;es, More Or Less Remote From The Flower, A Petaloid Calyx, Scarcely Distinguishable From The Corolla, And Soft Woolly Achenia (see Acneyium), Which In Some Species Have Tails. The Name Is Originally Greek, ...
Aneroid
Aneroid (formed In An Anomalous Way From Gr..a, Priv., And ?zeros, Wet), The Name Given To A Barometer Invented By 31. Vidi Of Paris, In Which The Pressure Of The Air Is Measured Without The Use Of Liquid, As In Ordinary Instruments. The Face Of The A. Barometer, Represented In ...
Anesthesia
Anesthesia (a, Privative, And Aistliesis, Sensation) Is A Term Used To Express A Loss Of Sensibility To External Impressions, Which May Involve A Part Or The Whole Surface Of The Body. In Some Diseased Conditions Of The Nervous Centers, A Part Of The Body May Become Totally Insensible To Pain, ...
Ang Eliqije Arnauld
Arnauld, Ang 'eliqije, A Daughter Of Robert Arnauld D'andilly, Was B. On The 28th Nov., 1624. From Her Earliest Years She Exhibited An Extraordinary Force And Resolute Ness Of Character, And Excited Much Anxious Speculation Concerning Her Future Career Among Her Relatives. When Not Quite Twenty Years Of Age, She ...
Angelica
Angelica, A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Umbellifene (q.v.), By Some Botanists Divided Into Two: A., And Archangelica. The Species Are Mostly Herbaceous And Perennial, Natives Of The Temperate And Colder Regions Of The Northern Hemisphere. They Have Bippinate Or Tripinnate Leaves. Wild A. (a. Spirewtris) Is A ...
Angels
Angels (gr. Messengers), In Jewish And Christian Theology, A Class Of Superior Spirits, Represented As The Immediate Instruments Of Divine Providence. As Scripture Contains No Complete And Systematic Account Of Angels, The Belief Of The Church Respecting Them, Except In A Few Points, Has Never Been Exactly Defined. It Has ...
Anger
Anger Is Displeasure Or Vexation Accompanied By A Passionate Desire To Break Out In Acts Or Words Of Violence Against The Cause Of The Displeasure; Which Must, Of Course, Be A Sentient Being, Capable Of Feeling The Infliction. Like Most Other Emotions, It Is Accom Panied By Effects On The ...
Angle
Angle (from Lat. Angelus, A Corner) Means, In Geometry, The Opening Or Inclination Of Two Lines That Cut Or Meet One Another. If The Lines Are Straight, The A. Is Rectilinear. The Magnitude Of An A. Depends, Not Upon The Length Of The Lines Or Legs, But Upon The Degree ...
Angler
Angler, Lophius Piscatorius, A Fish Not Uncommon On The British Shores, And Sometimes Called Theti.shing-frog, Sometimes, From Its Ugliness And Voracity, The Sea-deril. It Usually Attains The Size Of About 3 Ft. In Length, Sometimes 5 Ft. The Head Is Enor Mously Large, Depressed, And Spinal's; The Mouth Is Of ...
Angling
Angling Is The Art Of Alluring And Capturing Fish By Means Of A Rod, Line, And Hook —the Hook Being Furnished With A Lure, Which Is Either Some Object On Which The Animals Naturally Prey, Or Is A Counterfeit Of Such An Object. A. Is Of Great Antiquity, As We ...
Anglo Saxon Language And Literature
Anglo-saxon Language And Literature. The Term Anglo-saxon Is Of Quite Modern Origin, The Ruling Race In England Before The Norman Conquest Not Know Ing Itself By Any Other Name Than ./englisc Or English. Mr. Freeman, Prof. Stubbs, And Other Able Scholars Of The Present Day, Argue Stoutly For A Return ...
Anglo Saxons
Anglo-saxons, The Collective Name Generallygiven By Historians To The Various Teutonic Or German Tribes Which Settled In England, Chiefly In The 5th C., And Founded The Kingdoms Of The Heptarchy. They Consisted For The Most Part Of Angles, Saxons, And Jutes. The Generally Received Opinion Is, That The First Of ...
Angola
Angola, A Name Often Applied To The Whole Of The W. African Coast From Cape Lopez De Gonsalvo In Lat. 0° 44' S., To San Felipe De Benguela In 12° 14' S.; Hut, In A More Restricted Sense, The Name Of A Kingdom In Lower Guinea Dependent Upon Portugal, And ...
Angora
Angora, The Ane'ra Of The Ancients, Capital Of The Turkish Vilayet Of The Same Name, In The Nmuntamous Interior Of Asia Minor, And Distant From Constantinople About 220 M. E.s.e. It Is Said To Have Been Built By Midas, The Son Of The Phrygian Gor Dius; Was A Flourishing City ...
Angostura Bark
Angostura Bark, .or Angostura Bark, The Aromatic Bitter Bark Of Certain Trees Of The Natural Order Rubiacece And Tribe Cuspariece, Natives Of The Tropical Parts Of South America. It Derives Its Name From The Town Of Angostura, Where It Is A Considerable Article Of Commerce. It Was First Brought To ...
Anherstburg
Anherstburg, A T. On The River Detroit, Which Empties Lake St. Clair Into Lake Erie. It Is One Of The Oldest Settlements In Upper Canada, Being Named From Lord Amherst, Who, By The Capture Of Montreal In 1760, Completed What General Wolfe Had Begun At Quebec In 1759. It Occupies ...
Anhydrides
Anhydrides, Is The Term Now Commonly Given To The Compounds Formerly Known As Anhydrous Acids, Which Was A Very Unsatisfactory Name, Seeing That These Bodies Do Not Present Any Of The Ordinary Properties Of Acids. In Some Cases, They Are The Result Of The Dehydration Of Acids, And In All ...
Aniline
Aniline Is Now Universally Regarded As, In A Technological Point Of View, One Of The Most Important Organic Compounds Yet Discovered (see Dye-stuffs). Its Chief Physical And Chemical Characters Are Described Under The Head Of Phenyl (q.v.), An Organic Radical, Represented By Which, If Aniline Is (as Hofmann Believes) A ...
Animal
Animal And Animal Kingdom. According To A Very Old Classification, All Bodies Are Divided Into Three Kingdoms—the Mineral, The Vegetable, And The Animal. Animals And Vegetables Are Again Classed Together As Organic, In Opposition To Minerals, Which Are Inorganic. Mineral Bodies Are Masses Of Matter Without Internal Movement, Increas Ing ...
Animal Chemistry
Animal Chemistry. The Object Of Researches Into The Chemical Nature Of Animal Substances Is Twofold: First, To Classify The Proximate Or Immediate Component Ingre Dients Of The Animal Body, Study Their Properties, Their Mutual Relations And Metamor Phoses, And The Ultimate Elements Of Which They Are Composed; Second, To Investigate ...
Animal Heat
Animal Heat Is That Generated In Animal Bodies By Certain Of The Changes Con Stantly Taking Place Within Them. A Certain Amount Of Heat Is Necessary To The Proper Performance Of The Functions Of The Body, And Any Material Increase Or Decrease Of It From The Healthy Standard Endangers Life. ...
Animal Magnetism Or Mesmerism
Animal Magnetism Or Mesmerism Is A Supposed Influence Or Emanation By Means Of Which One Person Can Act Upon Another, Producing Wonderful Effects Upon His Body, And Controlling His Actions And Thoughts. It Was Fancied To Have Some Analogy To The Magnetism Of The Loadstone, And Hence Its Name. The ...
Animalcule
Animalcule, A Term Etymologically Applicable To Any Very Small Animal, And Limited In Actual Use To Those Which Are Microscopical. Animalcules Exist In Prodigious Numbers, And Of Many Different Kinds, Their Size Being Such That Multitudes Of Them Find Ample Space For All The Movements Of An Active Life Within ...
Animism
Animism, A Term Formerly Applied In Biology To Denote The Theory That The Soul, Anima, Is The Vital Principle, The Cause Of The Normal Phenomena Of Life And Of The Abnor Mal Phenomena Of Disease. It Is Now Current The Wider Anthropol Orrical Sense, As Including The General Doctrine Of ...
Anise
Anise, Pimpinella Anisum, An Annual Plant Of The Natural Order Umbelliferce. The Genus Pimpinella Has Compound Umbels, Usually Without Involucres. Two Species Are Natives Of Britain; They Are Commonly Known By The Name Of Burnt Saxifrage, And Have No Properties Of Importance. A. Is A Native Of Egypt. It Is ...
Ankylosis
Ankylo'sis (gr. Ankulosis, Bending Or Crooking; Ankule, Stiff-joint) Is A Term Used In !surgery To Imply A Stiffness In Any Joint. It Is Usually The Result Of Disease, Which, Ihaving Destroyed The Articular Cartilages, Leaves Two Bony Surfaces Opposed To Each Other. The Reparative Powers Of Nature Cause A Union ...
Anne
Anne, Queen Of Great Britain And Ireland, And The Last British Sovereign Of The House Of Stuart, Was B. At Twickenham, Near London, On 6th Feb., 1664. She Was The Second Daughter Of James Ii. Of England, And Vii. Of Scotland (who At The Time Of Her Birth Was Duke ...
Anne Of Austria
Anne Of Austria, Daughter Of Philip Il Of Spain, Was B. In 1602, And In 1615 Became The Wife Of Louis Xlii. Of France. The Marriage Was So Far From Being A Happy One, That The Royal Pair Lived For 23 Years In A State Of Virtual Separation—a Result Due ...
Annihilationism
Annihilationism, The Theory Of The Utter Extinction Of Man's Being, Both Bodily And Spiritual, Either At Death Or At Some Later Period. Little Was Heard Of The Doctrine Until In The Last Century, When Taylor, Of Norwich, England, Mcknight, And A Few Others Wrote Upon It. Among Later Supporters Perhaps ...
Annual Register
Annual Register. The First Volume Of The Useful Work Which Bears This Name Appeared In 1759. Various Publications Of A Similar Character Had Previously Existed, Such As Boyer's Political State Of Europe, Which Was Published In Monthly Numbers And Yearly Volumes From 1711 To 1739; And The Historical Register, A ...
Annuals
Annuals, The Name Given To A Class Of Pleasant And Graceful Publications, Which For Some Years Enjoyed An Extraordinary Amount Of Public Favor, Intended For Christmas, New Year, And Birthday Presents, In Imitation Of The Gift-books So Popular Among The Germans. They Were Illustrated By Exquisitely Engraved Prints, From Paintings ...
Annuity
Annuity, In The Law Of England, Is The Right To The Yearly Payment Of A Certain Sum Of Money, Which Is Charged Upon The Person Or Personal Estate Of The Individual Bound To Pay It. If It Is Charged Upon Real Estate, The Burden Is Called A Rent, Or Rent-charge, ...
Annuity
Annuity, From The Latin Annus, A Year, Is A. Sum Of Money Paid Annually. The Term, In Its Full Meaning, Expresses An Obligation On One Party To Pay, And A Right In Another To Receive The Amount. The Different Kinds Of Annuities That May Exist Are As Various As The ...
Annunciada 1
Annuncia'da. 1. The Religious Order Of The Heavenly Annunciation, Or Of The Nuns Of The Annunciation Of Mary, Was Instituted By Victoria Fornare At Genoa In 1682, After The Rule Of St. Augustine. All The Convents Of The Order In France, Ger Many, And The Netherlands Have Disappeared Since The ...
Anoplotherium
Anoplothe'rium (from The Greek A, Privative; (7t)opion, Armor; And Therion, A Beast), A Genus Of Extinct Pachydermatous Quadrupeds (see Paciiydermata), Established By Envier From Bones Occurring In Great Abundance In The Gypsum Strata Of The Upper Eocene (q.v.) Formation, Near Paris. They Are Found Also In The Same Formation In ...
Anselm
An'selm Of Canterbury, A Scholastic Philosopher, Was B. At Aosta, In Piedmont, In 1033. He Led At First A Dissipated Life; And, Like Abelard, Wandered Through France, After The Fashion Of The Scholars Of Those Days, Disputing Wherever He Could Find An Adversary. Attracted By The Reputation Of Lanfranc, He ...
Antacids
Antacids Are Medicines Which Correct Abnormal Acidity Of The Stomach And Intes Tinal Canal By Directly Combining With The Free Acid That May Be Present. Their Action Is Obviously Merely Temporary, As, Unless Combined With Other Medicines, They Do Not Correct The Morbid Condition Which Causes The Undue Acidity; And ...
Antalcidas
Antal'cidas, A Spartan Politician, Who Made Himself Conspicuous In A Very Perilous Crisis Of The History Of His Nation By The Skillful Character Of His Policy. Some Time After The Peloponnesian War, It Seemed As If Athens Were Destined To Regain The Supremacy She Had Lost. The Greek States Rallied ...
Antarctic Ocean
Antarctic Ocean, The Sea Round The South Pole, As The Arctic Ocean Is The Sea Round The North Pole. It Is Otherwise Called The Southern Ocean, Comprising All The Sea To The South Of The Atlantic, The Indian, And The Pacific Oceans. In This View, The A. 0.'s Northern Limit ...
Antares
Anta'res, A Red Star, Thought By The Ancients To Resemble Mrs. It Is A Double Star, And The Most Conspicuous Object In The Constellation Scorpio. A. Is Often Of Use To Navigators In Finding Longitude. See Ant-eater. And Names Given To Birds Of Tropical And Sub-tropical Countries, Which Feed Chiefly ...
Antelope
Antelope, Antilope, A Genus Of Mammalia Belonging To The Order Of Ruminants (q.v.), And To The Hollow-horned Section Of That Order—in Which The-horns Consist Of An Elastic Sheath Surrounding A Bony Process Of The Skull, And Are Permanent, Not Annually Renewed. The Antelopes Have The Bony Nucleus Of The Horns ...
Anthology
Anthology (gr. Flower-collection) Is The Title Usually Given To A Book Consisting Of An Unconnected Series Of Choice Thoughts, Whether In Prose Or Verse, But Generally In The Latter. Of The Collections Of This Kind Made In Ancient Times, Which Consisted Mostly Of Epigrammatic Poems, The Best Known Are The ...
Anthon
Anthon, Citarles, Ll.d., A Well-known Editor Of Classics, Was B. In The City Of New York In 1797. At The Age Of 14, He Entered Columbia College, Where Lie Pursued His Studies With Ardor And Success For 4 Years. Having Been Originally Intended For The Law, He Now Passed Through ...
Anthropometry
Anthropom'etry (the Measurement Of Man), Of Late Years Much Attended To By Anthropologists, Foremost Among Whom Is Dr. A. Weisbach, Chief Physician To The Austro-hungarian Hospital In Constantinople. His Measurements Refer To 19 Different Peoples And More Than 200 Individuals From All Parts Of The Earth, And Take Cognizance Of ...
Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism (from The Gr. Anthriipos, Man, And Morphs, A Form), The Application, In A Figurative Way, To God, Of Terms Which Properly Relate To Human Beings. Thus, In The Holy Scriptures, We Read Of The Eye, The Ear, The Arm, The Hand Of God, And Of His Remembering, Forgetting, Etc. ...
Anti Masons
Anti-masons, The Name Of A Political Party In New York And Other States, Organized In 1827-28. It Was The Result Of A Remarkable Excitement Over The Fate Of William Morgan, A Tailor Of Batavia, N. Y., Who Was Said To Be About To Publish, Or Betray, The Secrets Of The ...
Antichrist
Antichrist (from Gr. Anti, Against, And Clithtog, Christ). The General Notion Of A., As A Power Opposing Itself To The Reign Of The Messiah, May Be Traced Back Beyond The Christian Era. Its Origin Is Perhaps To Be Found In The Prophecy Of Ezekiel Concerning The Doom Of Gog And ...
Antifater
Antifater. Of The Many Persons Who Bore This Name In Antiquity, The Most Cele Brated Was One Of The Generals And Confidential Friends Of King Philip Of Macedon. When Alexander Led His Troops Into Asia, He Left A.—who, Along With Parmenion, Had Endeavored To Dissuade Him From The Expedition—as Governor ...
Antiiiita
Antiiiita, A West India Island, The Most Important Of The Leeward Islands (see Antilles), And The Residence Of The Governor-in-chief Of The British Portion Of The Group. It Lies In W. Long., Between 61° 44' And 61° 58'; And In N. Lat., Between 17° 2' And 17° 13'. Its Area ...
Antiiim
An'tiiim, One Of The Most Ancient Cities Of Latium, Stood On The Coast 34 M. S.s.c. From Rome. Being Favorably Situated For Commerce And Piracy, It Became, Under The Volseians, Into Whose Hands It Had Fallen, One Of The Most Powerful Enemies Of Rising Rome, Until Finally Subdued (338 Nee.). ...
Antilles
Antil'les, A Term Used To Designate Generally The Whole Of The West India Islands, Except The Bahamas. Generally Speaking, They Stretch Eastward From The Gulf Of Mexico To About The Meridian Of The Gulf Of Perm; Then Southward To The Gulf Of Paria Itself; And Lastly, Westward To The Gulf ...
Antin011ianisx
Antin011ianisx (gr. Anti, Against, And Nomos, Law), The Doctrine Or Opinion That Christians Are Freed From Obligation To Keep The Law Of God. It Is Generally Regarded By The Advocates Of The Doctrine Of Justification By Faith, As A Monstrous Abuse And Per Version Of That Doctrine, Upon Which It ...