n. [ See Adiaphorous. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to adventurism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. allegoriste. ] One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. altarista, F. altariste. ] (Old Law) (a) A chaplain. (b) A vicar of a church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. armor love. See Amorous. ] A lover; a gallant. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Antichristus, Gr. &unr_;; 'anti` against + &unr_;. ] A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opposed to the Christian religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an antichristian manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'antiperi`stasis; 'anti` against + peri`stasis a standing around, fr. periista`nai to stand around; peri` around + "ista`nai to stand.] Opposition by which the quality opposed acquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality. [1913 Webster]

a. Pertaining to antiperistasis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'ao`ristos indefinite; 'a priv. + "ori`zein to define, &unr_; boundary, limit.] (Gram.) A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Gr. 'aoristiko`s. ] Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer or utterer of aphorisms. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style. [ 1913 Webster ]

The method of the book is aphoristic. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who keeps an apiary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a farmer who keeps bees for their honey.
Syn. -- beekeeper, apiarist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who cultivates trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. arboriste, fr. L. arbor tree. ] One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3d sing. pres. of Arise, for ariseth. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Bot.) An awn. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Aristarchus, a Greek grammarian and critic, of Alexandria, about 200 b. c. ] A severe critic. Knowles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Severely critical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Severely criticism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Severe criticism. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Harrington. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aristatus, fr. arista. See Arista. ] 1. (Bot.) Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Aristocracies [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; best + &unr_; to be strong, to rule, &unr_; strength; &unr_; is perh. from the same root as E. arm, and orig. meant fitting: cf. F. aristocratie. See Arm, and Create, which is related to Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. Government by the best citizens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A ruling body composed of the best citizens. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the Senate
Right not our quest in this, I will protest them
To all the world, no aristocracy. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. aristocrate. See Aristocracy. ] 1. One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. [ 1913 Webster ]

A born aristocrat, bred radical. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern. [ 1913 Webster ]

His whole family are accused of being aristocrats. Romilly. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. aristocratique. ] 1. Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Partaking of aristocracy; befitting aristocracy; characteristic of, or originating with, the aristocracy; as, an aristocratic measure; aristocratic pride or manners. -- Ar`is*to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Ar`is*to*crat"ic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The principles of aristocrats. Romilly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Aristocrats, collectively. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family comprising the birthworts; wild ginger.
Syn. -- family Aristolochiaceae, birthwort family [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 an order of plants distinguished by tubular petaloid perianth and inferior ovary. It includes the Aristolochiaceae, Rafflesiaceae, and Hydnoraceae.
Syn. -- order Aristolochiales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; dinner + -logy. ] The science of dining. Quart. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Aristotle; Aristotelian. Aristotelean logic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a small genus of shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand and West South America.
Syn. -- genus Aristotelia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.). -- n. A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. “Aristotelic usage.” Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; best + -type. ] (Photog.) Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Dim. fr. arista. ] (Bot.) Having a short beard or awn. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. armoriste. ] One skilled in coat armor or heraldry. Cussans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An augur. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. auris ear. ] One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]