n. 1. 1 a genus of European fishes.
Syn. -- genus Abramis [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [ Obs. ] Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. academiste. ] 1. An Academic philosopher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An academician. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; world. ] A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God. [ 1913 Webster ]

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; as, the admissibility of evidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. admissible, LL. admissibilis. See Admit. ] Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. -- Ad*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ad*mis"si*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. admissio: cf. F. admission. See Admit. ] 1. The act or practice of admitting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. [ 1913 Webster ]

What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something &unr_;serted; acknowledgment; concession. [ 1913 Webster ]

The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Eng. Eccl. Law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Admittance; concession; acknowledgment; concurrence; allowance. See Admittance. [ 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 ]

n. 1. the act of giving, or tendency to give, needless warnings. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

{ } a. Relating to or practicing alchemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Alchemy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a., n., a., n. See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat like alum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. [ Written also Omish. ] (Eccl. Hist.) The Amish Mennonites. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Written also Omish. ] (Eccl. Hist.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as “worldly conformity”. There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States. A branch having particularly strict adherence to the Amish principles are called Old Order Amish [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

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 (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at; to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. [ Used only in the predicate. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] 1. The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [ i. e., the French ] great figure painters. The London Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] 1. The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. 'anqemi`s, equiv. to 'a`nqos flower; an herb like our chamomile. ] (Bot.) Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ]

{ } a. [ L. armisonus; arma arms + sonare (p. pr. sonans) to sound. ] Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. 1. 1 the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon in Greek mythology; one of the Olympian deities, daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with the Roman Diana.
Syn. -- Cynthia, Diana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. Artemisia, Gr. 'Artemisi`a. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these Artemisia absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and Artemisia tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the branch of science involving astronomy and chemistry which studies the chemical composition, chemical reactions, and evolution of matter in outer space. -- as`tro*chem"ic*al a. -- as`tro*chem"ic*al*ly adv. [ PJC ]

n. 1. separating something into fine particles.
Syn. -- atomization, fragmentation [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. annihilation by reducing something to atoms.
Syn. -- atomization [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine spray.
Syn. -- atomizer, spray [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. atomisme. ] The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. atomiste. ] One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to atoms; relating to atomism. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. divided into separate and often disparate elements; -- the opposite of holistic.
Syn. -- atomistical. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. divided into separate and often disparate elements. holistic
Syn. -- atomistic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]