Dictionary: AC-A-DE-MI'CIAN – A-CAT'E-CHI-TI

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AC-A-DE-MI'CIAN, a. [Fr. academicien.]

A member of an academy, or society for promoting arts and sciences; particularly, a member of the French academies.

A-CAD'E-MISM, n.

The doctrine of the academic philosophy. – Baxter.

A-CAD'E-MIST, n.

A member of an academy for promoting arts and sciences; also an academic philosopher.

A-CAD'E-MY, n. [L. academia, Gr. ακαδημια. Originally, it is said, a garden, grove, or villa, near Athens, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences.]

  1. A school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a university or college, and a common school; also a school for teaching a particular art, or a particular sciences, as a military academy.
  2. A house, in which the students or members of an academy meet; a place of education.
  3. A society of men united for the promotion of arts and sciences in general, or of some particular art.

A-CAL'E-PHA, n.

An order of marine animals. See Acalephe. – Currier.

A-CAL-E'PHAN, or AC-A-LE'PHE, n. [Gr. ακαληφη, a nettle.]

The class of marine animals comprehending the sea-nettle, jelly-fish, medusæ, &c. They are radiate and invertebrate, and have the property, when touched, of irritating the skin.

AC'A-LOT, n. [Contracted from acacalotl.]

A Mexican fowl, called by some the aquatic crow. It is the ibis, or a fowl that very much resembles it.

A-CAM'A-CU, n.

A bird, the Brazilian fly catcher, or Todus. – Cyc.

AC-A-NA'CEOUS, a. [acana'shus; Gr. ακανος, a prickly shrub.]

Armed with prickles. A class of plants are called Acanaceæ. – Milne.

A-CANTH'A, n. [Gr. ακανθα, a spine or thorn.]

In botany, a prickle; in zoology, a spine or prickly fin; an acute process of the vertebers. – Encyc.

A-CANTH-A'CEOUS, a.

Armed with prickles, as a plant.

A-CANTH'A-RIS, n. [Gr. ακανθιας.]

In entomology, a species of Cimex, with a spinous thorax, and a ciliated abdomen, with spines, found in Jamaica. – Cyc.

A-CANTH'ICE, n.

The sweet juice of ivy buds.

A-CANTHINE, a. [See Acanthus.]

Pertaining to the plant acanthus. The acanthine garments of the ancients were made of the down of thistles, or embroidered in imitation of the acanthus. – Encyc.

A-CAN'THO-PODE, n. [Gr. ακανθος, a spine, and πους, foot.]

A spine-footed insect, clavicorn and coleopterous.

A-CANTH-OP-TE-RYG'I-OUS, a. [Gr. ακανθος, a thorn, and πτερυθιον, a little feather, from πτερον, a feather.]

In zoology, having back fins, which are hard, bony and prickly, a term applied to certain fishes. – Linn.

A-CANTH'US, n. [Gr. ακανθος, L. acanthus, from ακανθα, a prickle or thorn. See Acantha.]

  1. The plant bear's breech or brink ursine; a genus of several species, receiving their name from their prickles.
  2. In architecture, an ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus, used in capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders. – Milton. Encyc.

A-CAN'TI-CONE, n. [See PISTACITE.]

A-CAN'ZI-I, n. [plur.]

The name given to light-horse in Turkey. – Knowles.

A-CARN'AR, n.

A bright star of the first magnitude, as in Eridanus. – Bailey.

AC'A-RUS, n.

A tick; a small articulated animal.

A-CAT-A-LEC'TIC, n. [Gr. ακαταληκτος, not defective at the end, of κατα and ληγω to cease; Ir. lieghim.]

A verse, which has the complete number of syllables without defect or superfluity. – Johnson.

A-CAT'A-LEP-SY, n. [Gr. ακαταληψια; α and καταλαμβανω, to comprehend.]

Impossibility of complete discovery or comprehension; incomprehensibility. [Little used.] – Whitaker.

A-CAT-A-LEP'TIC, a.

Incomprehensible.

A-CAT'E-CHI-TI, n.

A Mexican bird, a species of Fringilla, of the size of the siskin.