English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Anticipation
(n.)
Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
Anticipation
(n.)
The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with
or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.
Anticipative
(a.)
Anticipating, or containing anticipation.
Anticipator
(n.)
One who anticipates.
Anticipatory
(a.)
Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation.
Anticivic
(n.)
Opposed to citizenship.
Anticivism
(n.)
Opposition to the body politic of citizens.
Anticked
(imp. & p. p.)
of Antic
of Antic
Anticlastic
(a.)
Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved
longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite
direction, as the surface of a saddle.
Anticlimax
(n.)
A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less
important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It
produces a ridiculous effect.
Anticlinal
(a.)
Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See
Synclinal.
Anticlinal
(n.)
The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in
opposite directions.
Anticlinoria
(pl. )
of Anticlinorium
Anticlinorium
(n.)
The upward elevation of the crust of the earth,
resulting from a geanticlinal.
Anticly
(adv.)
Oddly; grotesquely.
Anticness
(n.)
The quality of being antic.
Anticonstitutional
(a.)
Opposed to the constitution; unconstitutional.
Anticontagious
(a.)
Opposing or destroying contagion.
Anticonvulsive
(a.)
Good against convulsions.