a. Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Athanasian creed, a formulary, confession, or exposition of faith, formerly supposed to have been drawn up by Athanasius; but this opinion is now rejected, and the composition is ascribed by some to Hilary, bishop of Arles (5th century). It is a summary of what was called the orthodox faith. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. [ NL. athanasia, fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; priv. + &unr_; death. ] The quality of being deathless; immortality. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is not a scholiastic athanasy better than none? Lowell. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. Bacchanalis. See Bacchanalia. ] 1. Relating to Bacchus or his festival. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. “Tipsy bacchanals.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Drunken revelry; an orgy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr. Ba`kchos. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken revels; an orgy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bacchanal; a drunken reveler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a thorny shrub or small tree (Geoffroea decorticans) common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
Syn. -- chanal, Geoffroea decorticans. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;; e'y^ well + &unr_; death, &unr_;, &unr_;, to die: cf. F. euthanasie. ] 1. An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired. “An euthanasia of all thought.” Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The kindest wish of my friends is euthanasia. Arbuthnot.

2. the act or process of putting to death for humane purposes; -- used to refer to the killing of animals in order to relieve or avoid pain. [ PJC ]

n. Same as Euthanasia. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>prop. n. A country in Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Cote d'Ivoire and Togo, with Burkina Faso bordering on the north, with a population of 17, 698, 271 (July 1996 est), and a total area of 238, 540 sq km. The government is a constitutional democracy, and the capital city is Accra. [ PJC ]

It has a tropical climate, being warm and comparatively dry along the southeast coast, hot and humid in southwest and hot and dry in the north. Its terrain is mostly low plains with a dissected plateau in the south-central area.
The official language is English, and several African languages are spoken, including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga. The population is comprised 99.8% of black Africans and 0.2% European and other nationalities. The major tribes are: Akan 44%, Moshi-Dagomba 16%, Ewe 13%, and Ga 8%. The religious composition is 38% indigenous beliefs, 30% Muslim, 24% Christian and 8% others.
The unit of currency is the new cedi; 1 new cedi (C) = 100 pesewas. The exchange rates for the cedi were: new cedis per US$1 - 1, 246.11 (September 1995), 956.71 (1994), 649.06 (1993), 437.09 (1992), 367.83 (1991).
Navigable waterways include the Volta, Ankobra, and Tano Rivers, providing 168 km of perennial navigation for launches and lighters. CIA Factbook 1996 [ PJC ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Ghana; as, Ghanaian writers.
Syn. -- Ghanian, Ghanese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to Ghana. Ghanaian cocoa production
Syn. -- Ghanese, Ghanian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. hanap. See Hanaper. ] A rich goblet, esp. one used on state occasions. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. hanaperium a large vase, fr. hanapus vase, bowl, cup (whence F. hanap); of German origin; cf. OHG. hnapf, G. napf, akin to AS. hnæp cup, bowl. Cf. Hamper, Nappy, n. ] A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hanaper office, an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dominion or jurisdiction of a khan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thermosetting plastic formed by the reaction of melamine and formaldehyde. It is used for molding and for preparing laminated sheets used to surface counter tops, walls, and furniture. The commercially marketed Formica (TM) is one type of melamine resin. [ PJC ]

n. (Chem.) Same as formaldehyde. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An institution or asylum for the care of orphans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Turk. fanar, fr. NGr. fana`ri lighthouse, Gr. fana`rion lantern; -- from a lighthouse on a point projecting into the Golden Horn. ] A quarter of Constantinople which, after the Turkish conquest of the city, became the chief Greek quarter; hence, the Greek officials of Turkey, or phanariots, as a class. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ n. Also . [ NGr. Fanariw`ths, fr. Phanar. See Phanar. ] One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Psycho- + analysis. ] same as psychoanalysis; -- an older term now obsolete. -- Psy*chan`a*lyt"ic a. -- Psy`cha*nal"y*sist n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. Satanas. See Satan ] Satan. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Written also tana, tanna. ] [ Hind. thānā. ] A police station. [ India ] Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. qa`natos death + -oid. ] Deathlike; resembling death. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. qa`natos + -logy. ] A description, or the doctrine, of death. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. qa`natos death + 'o`psis view. ] The title of a poem by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), meditating on the subject of death. One of Bryant's best-remembered poems, it was written in 1811 and was discovered and rushed to publication in 1817 (in the North American Review) by Bryant's father, originally without the poet's knowledge. A revised version was published in 1821. In this elegy Bryant reflects that death comes to all men, common and great, and that all eventually shall rest together in the "mighty sepulchre" of the earth. [ PJC ]

The text of the poem is as follows:

To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty; and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy that steals away
Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight
Over thy spirit, and sad images
Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall,
And breathless darkness, and the narrow house,
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart; --
Go forth, under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings, while from all around --
Earth and her waters, and the depths of air --
Comes a still voice. Yet a few days, and thee
The all-beholding sun shall see no more
In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground,
Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears,
Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist
Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
Thine individual being, shalt thou go
To mix forever with the elements,
To be a brother to the insensible rock
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold.
Yet not to thine eternal resting-place
Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world -- with kings,
The powerful of the earth -- the wise, the good,
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
All in one mighty sepulchre. -- The hills
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, -- the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between;
The venerable woods -- rivers that move
In majesty, and the complaining brooks
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, --
Are but the solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun,
The planets, all the infinite host of heaven,
Are shining on the sad abodes of death
Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom. -- Take the wings
Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness,
Or lose thyself in the continuous woods
Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound,
Save his own dashings -- yet the dead are there:
And millions in those solitudes, since first
The flight of years began, have laid them down
In their last sleep -- the dead reign there alone.
So shalt thou rest -- and what if thou withdraw
In silence from the living, and no friend
Take note of thy departure? All that breathe
Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh
When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care
Plod on, and each one as before will chase
His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave
Their mirth and their employments, and shall come
And make their bed with thee. As the long train
Of ages glides away, the sons of men--
The youth in life's fresh spring, and he who goes
In the full strength of years, matron and maid,
The speechless babe, and the gray-headed man--
Shall one by one be gathered to thy side,
By those, who in their turn, shall follow them.
So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
[ PJC ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. qa`natos death + 'o`psis view. ] A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]