Webster's Dictionary 1828

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ANTIQUATED

AN'TIQUATED, participle passive Grown old; obsolete; out of use; having lost its binding force by non-observance; as an antiquated law.

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ANTIQUATEDNESS

AN'TIQUATEDNESS, noun The state of being old or obsolete.

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ANTIQUATION

ANTIQUA'TION, noun The state of being antiquated.

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ANTIQUE

ANTIQUE, adjective antee'k. [Latin antiquus, probably from ante.]1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; in this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rom...

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ANTIQUENESS

ANTIQUENESS, noun antee'kness. The quality of being ancient; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship.

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ANTIQUITY

ANTIQ'UITY, noun [Latin antiquitas.]1. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; a very indefinite term; as, Cicero was the most eloquent orator of antiquity2. The anci...

2896

ANTIREVOLUTIONARY

ANTIREVOLU'TIONARY, adjective [See Revolution.]Opposed to a revolution; opposed to an entire change in the form of government.

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ANTIREVOLUTIONIST

ANTIREVOLU'TIONIST, noun One who is opposed to a revolution in government.

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ANTISABBATARIAN

ANTISABBATA'RIAN, noun [anti and sabbath.]One of a sect who oppose the observance of the Christian sabbath; maintaining that the Jewish sabbath was only of ceremonial, not of mo...

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ANTISABIAN

ANTISA'BIAN, adjective [See sabian.]Opposed or contrary to Sabianism, or the worship of the celestial orbs.

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ANTISACERDOTAL

ANTISACERDO'TAL, adjective Adverse to priests.

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ANTISCIAN

ANTIS'CIAN, ANTIS'CIANS, noun [Latin antiscii, of Gr. opposite, and shadow.]

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ANTISCIANS

ANTIS'CIAN, ANTIS'CIANS, noun [Latin antiscii, of Gr. opposite, and shadow.]In geography, the inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows a...

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ANTISCORBUTIC

ANTISCORBU'TIC, adjective [anti and scorbutic.] which see.]Counteracting the scurvy.ANTISCORBU'TIC, noun A remedy for the scurvy.

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ANTISCRIPTURISM

ANTISCRIP'TURISM, noun Opposition to the Holy Scriptures.

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ANTISCRIPTURIST

ANTISCRIP'TURIST, noun One that denies revelation.

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ANTISEPTIC

ANTISEP'TIC, adjective [Gr. putrid, from to putrify.]Opposing or counteracting putrefaction.ANTISEP'TIC, noun A medicine which resists or corrects putrefaction, as acids, stimul...

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ANTISOCIAL

ANTISO'CIAL, adjective [See Social.]Averse to society; that tends to interrupt or destroy social intercourse.

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ANTISPASIS

ANTIS'PASIS, noun [Gr. against, and to draw.]A revulsion of fluids, from one part of the body to another.

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ANTISPASMODIC

ANTISPASMOD'IC, adjective [Gr. against, and from to draw.]Opposing spasm; resisting convulsions; as anodynes.ANTISPASMOD'IC, noun A remedy for spasm or convulsions, as opium, ba...

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ANTISPASTIC

ANTISPAS'TIC, adjective [See Antispasis.]Causing a revulsion of fluids or humors.

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ANTISPLENETIC

ANTISPLENET'IC, adjective [See Spleen.]Good as a remedy in diseases of the spleen.

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ANTISTASIS

ANTIS'TASIS, noun [Gr. Opposite, and station.]In oratory, the defense of an action from the consideration that if it had been omitted, something worse would have happened.

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ANTISTES

ANTIS'TES, noun [Latin] The chief priest or prelate.

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ANTISTROPHE

ANTIS'TROPHE, 'TROPHY, noun [Gr. opposite, and a turning.1. In grammar, the changing of things mutually depending on each other; reciprocal conversion; as, the master of the ser...

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ANTISTROPHON

ANTIS'TROPHON, noun A figure which repeats a word often.

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ANTISTRUMATIC

ANTISTRUMAT'IC, adjective [anti and struma, a scrophulous swelling.]Good against scrophulous disorders.