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a. [ Pref. anti- + apoplectic. ] (Med.) Alleviating apoplexy. -- n. A medicine used for alleviating apoplexy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to anthropopathy. [ R. ] -- An`thro*po*path"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. H. Rogers. [1913 Webster]

n. One who ascribes human feelings to deity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a`nqrwpos man + &unr_; suffering, affection, passion, &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. [ 1913 Webster ]

In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; eating men; 'a`nqrwpos man + + &unr_; to eat. ] Man eaters; cannibals. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Relating to cannibalism or anthropophagy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who east human flesh. [ Ludicrous ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cannibal. W. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Feeding on human flesh; cannibal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] The eating of human flesh; cannibalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'anqropofyh`s of man's nature; 'a`nqropos a man + fyh` nature. ] Human nature. [ R. ] Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Med.) Same as Antapoplectic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'apopemptiko`s, fr. 'apope`mpein to send off or away; 'apo` from + pe`mpein to send. ] Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apopemptic songs or hymns. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; from + &unr_; full of phlegm. See Phlegmatic. ] (Med.) Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n. An apophlegmatic medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, Galen. ] 1. (Med.) The action of apophlegmatics. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An apophlegmatic. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) An apophlegmatic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Apothegm. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. 'apo`fqegma thing uttered, apothegm, from 'apofqe`ggesqai to speak out; 'apo` from + fqe`ggesqai to speak. ] A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim. [ Apothegm is now the prevalent spelling in the United States. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Apothegmatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'apofygh` escape, in arch. the curve with which the shaft escapes into its base or capital, fr. 'apofey`gein to flee away; 'apo` from + fey`gein to flee: cf. F. apophyge. ] (Arch.) The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. apo- + Gr. &unr_; leaf; so called from its foliated structure or easy cleavage. ] (Min.) A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. -ses. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; offshoot, process of a bone, fr. &unr_; to grow from; &unr_; from + &unr_;, &unr_;, to grow. ] 1. (Anat.) A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ #) } a. [ L. apoplecticus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;: cf. F. apoplectique. See Apoplexy. ] Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Apoplectic + -form, -oid. ] Resembling apoplexy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Apoplexy. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with apoplexy. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. poplexye, LL. poplexia, apoplexia, fr. Gr. 'apoplhxi`a, fr. 'apoplh`ssein to cripple by a stroke; 'apo` from + plh`ssein to strike: cf. F. apoplexie. See Plague. ] (Med.) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term is now usually limited to cerebral apoplexy, or loss of consciousness due to effusion of blood or other lesion within the substance of the brain; but it is sometimes extended to denote an effusion of blood into the substance of any organ; as, apoplexy of the lung. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Russ.; bez without + popovtsy, a derivative of pop priest. ] A Russian sect. See Raskolnik. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Gr. karpo`s fruit + &unr_; to eat. ] Living on fruits; fruit-consuming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. karpo`s fruit + fe`rein to bear. ] (Bot.) A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. karpo`s fruit + &unr_; leaf. ] (Bot.) A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. [ See Illust. of Gymnospermous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. karpo`s fruit + fyto`n plant. ] (Bot.) A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The division of algæ and fungi into four classes called Carpophytes, Oophytes, Protophytes, and Zygophytes (or Carposporeæ, Oosporeæ, Protophyta, and Zygosporeæ) was proposed by Sachs about 1875. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Depopulation; destruction of population. [ R. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depopulated p. pr. & vb. n. Depopulating ] [ L. depopulatus, p. p. of depopulari to ravage; de- + populari to ravage, fr. populus people: cf. OF. depopuler, F. dépeupler. See People. ] To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where is this viper,
That would depopulate the city? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is not synonymous with laying waste or destroying, being limited to the loss of inhabitants; as, an army or a famine may depopulate a country. It rarely expresses an entire loss of inhabitants, but often a great diminution of their numbers; as, the deluge depopulated the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become dispeopled. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. depopulatio pillaging: cf. F. dépopulation depopulation. ] The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]

The desolation and depopulation [ of St.Quentin ] were now complete. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., pillager. ] One who depopulates; a dispeopler. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pertaining to a diapophysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Dia-, and Apophysis. ] (Anat.) The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom. [ 1913 Webster ]

One whom they dispoped. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ F. épopée, Gr. &unr_;; 'e`pos song + &unr_; to make. See Epos. ] An epic poem; epic poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; one initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries. ] One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] Same as Hemapophysis. -- Haem`a*po*phys"i*al a. [1913 Webster]

‖n.; pl. Hemapophyses . [ NL. See Haema-, and Apophysis. ] (Anat.) The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib. Owen. -- Hem`a*po*phys"i*al a.

n. [ Gr. "i`ppos horse + E. pathology: cf. F. hippopathologie.] The science of veterinary medicine; the pathology of the horse. [1913 Webster]

n. pl. [ NL. See Hippophagous. ] Eaters of horseflesh. [ 1913 Webster ]