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n. The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [ Obs. ] Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. academiste. ]
n. [ Gr.
n. [ See Acosmism. ] One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God. G. H. Lewes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Chemistry in its relations to actinism. Draper. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. admissibilité. ] The quality of being admissible; admissibleness;
a. [ F. admissible, LL. admissibilis. See Admit. ] Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable;
n. [ L. admissio: cf. F. admission. See Admit. ]
What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young. [ 1913 Webster ]
The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Implying an admission; tending to admit. [ R. ] Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to admission. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. & i. [ F. affamer, fr. L. ad + fames hunger. See Famish. ] To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Starvation. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Agamous. ] An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. [ Cf. F. alarmiste. ] One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. OF. alquemiste, F. alchimiste. ] One who practices alchemy. [ 1913 Webster ]
You are alchemist; make gold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Alchemy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Somewhat like alum. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. sing. & pl.
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adv. [ Pref. a- + miss. ] Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. [ 1913 Webster ]
What error drives our eyes and ears amiss? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]
To take
a. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper;
His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances. Wollaston. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A fault, wrong, or mistake. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ Cf. F. amissibilité. See Amit. ] The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. amissibilis: cf. F. amissible. ] Liable to be lost. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. amissio: cf. F. amission. ] Deprivation; loss. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. anatomisme. ]
The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [
n. [ Cf. F. anatomiste. ] One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. animisme, fr. L. anima soul. See Animate. ]
n. [ Cf. F. animiste. ] One who maintains the doctrine of animism. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to animism. Huxley. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ Gr.
n. One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. An Antinomian. [ R. ] Bp. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖ [ NL. ] (Anat.) The vermiform appendix. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ F. armistice, fr. (an assumed word) L. armistitium; arma arms + stare, statum (combining form, -stitum), to stand still. ] A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. [ L. Artemisia, Gr.
n. the branch of science involving astronomy and chemistry which studies the chemical composition, chemical reactions, and evolution of matter in outer space. --
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n. [ Cf. F. atomisme. ] The doctrine of atoms. See
n. [ Cf. F. atomiste. ] One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. divided into separate and often disparate elements.