ANTALGIC
ANTAL'GIC, adjective [Gr. against, and pain.] Alleviating pain; anodyne.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ANTANACLASIS
ANTANACLA'SIS, noun [Gr. a driving back.]1. In rhetoric, a figure, which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, whilst we live, let us live. Learn some cr...
ANTANAGOGE
ANTANAGO'GE, noun antanago'gy. [Gr. against, and a taking up.]In rhetoric, a figure which consists in replying to an adversary, by way of recrimination; as, when the accusation ...
ANTAPHRODISIAC
ANTAPHRODIS'IAC, adjective [Gr. against, and venereal, from Venus.]Antivenereal; having the quality of extinguishing or lessening venereal desire.ANTAPHRODIS'IAC, noun A medicin...
ANTAPHRODITIC
ANTAPHRODIT'IC, adjective [Gr. See the preceding words.] Antivenereal, abating the venereal appetite, or efficacious against the venereal disease.ANTAPHRODIT'IC, noun A medicine...
ANTAPOPLECTIC
ANTAPOPLEC'TIC, adjective Good against apoplexy.
ANTARCTIC
ANTARC'TIC, adjective [Gr. against, and the bear, a northern constellation.]Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and ...
ANTARES
ANTA'RES, noun The name of a star of the first magnitude, called also the scorpion's heart. Its longitude is 60 degrees 13' 14' of Sagittarius; and its latitude 4 degrees 31' 26...
ANTARTHRITIC
ANTARTHRIT'IC, noun A remedy which cures or alleviates the gout.ANTARTHRIT'IC, adjective [Gr against, and gout.] Counteracting the gout.
ANTASTHMATIC
ANTASTHMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. against, and asthma.] Opposing the asthma.ANTASTHMAT'IC, noun A remedy for the asthma.
ANTE
AN'TE. A Latin preposition, Gr.; much used in the composition of English words, especially in words from the Latin and Greek languages. It signifies before in place, in front; h...
ANTEACT
AN'TEACT, noun [ante and act.] A preceding act.
ANTECEDANEOUS
ANTECEDA'NEOUS, adjective [Infra.] Antecedent; preceding in time.
ANTECEDE
ANTECE'DE, verb transitive [ante and cedo, to go. See Cede.] To go before in time; to precede.
ANTECEDENCE
ANTECE'DENCE, noun The act or state of going before in time; precedence. In astronomy, an apparent motion of a planet towards the west, or contrary to the order of the signs.
ANTECEDENT
ANTECE'DENT, adjective Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the deluge.ANTECE'DENT, noun That which goes before in time; hence in writing...
ANTECEDENTLY
ANTECE'DENTLY, adverb Previously; at a time preceding.
ANTECESSOR
ANTECES'SOR, noun [Latin whence ancestor. See Antecede.]1. One who goes before; a leader; a principal. It was formerly a title given to those who excelled in any science; to pro...
ANTECHAMBER
AN'TECHAMBER, noun [Ante, before, and chamber.]A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment to which it leads, and in which persons wait for audience.
ANTECHAPEL
ANTECHAP'EL, noun The part of the chapel through which is the passage to the choir or body of it.
ANTECIAN
ANTE'CIAN, noun [Gr. opposite, and to dwell; Latin antaci.]In geography, the antecians are those inhabitants of the earth, under the same meridian, and at the same distance from...
ANTECURSOR
ANTECURS'OR, noun [Latin ante, before, and cursor, a runner, from curro, to run. See Course.]One who runs before; a forerunner. In the Roman armies, the antecursors were a body ...
ANTEDATE
AN'TEDATE, noun [Infra.] Prior date; a date antecedent to another.AN'TEDATE, verb transitive [Latin ante, and datum, given. See Date.]1. To date before the true time; thus, to a...
ANTEDILUVIAL
ANTEDILU'VIAL,ANTEDILU'VIAN, adjective [Latin ante and diluvium, a flood. See Lave.]Before the flood, or deluge, in Noah's time; existing, happening, or relating to what happene...
ANTEDILUVIAN
ANTEDILU'VIAN, a. [L. ante and diluvium, a flood. See Lave.]Before the flood, or deluge, in Noah's time; existing, happening, or relating to what happened before the deluge.ANTE...
ANTELOPE
AN'TELOPE, noun [Gr. resembling a deer.]In zoology, the gazelle; a genus of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and goat. Their horns are solid and permanent stra...
ANTELUCAN
ANTELU'CAN, adjective [Latin antelucanus, of ante, before, and lux, light.]Being before light; a word applied to assemblies of christians, in ancient times of persecution, held ...