Dictionary: AR-GU-MENT-A'TION – AR'I-MAN, or AR'I-MA

a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z |

1234567891011121314151617181920
2122232425262728293031323334353637383940
4142434445464748495051525354555657585960
6162636465666768697071727374757677787980
81828384858687888990919293949596979899100
101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120
121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140
141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158159160
161162163164165166167168169170171172173174175176177178179180
181182183184185186187188189190191192193194195196197198199200
201202203204205206207208209210211212213214215216217218219220
221222223224225226

AR-GU-MENT-A'TION, n.

Reasoning; the act of reasoning; the act of inventing or forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case, in discussion. The operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. – Encyc. Watts.

AR-GU-MENT'A-TIVE, a.

  1. Consisting of argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.
  2. Showing reasons for; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.

AR-GU-MENT'A-TIVE-LY, adv.

In an argumentative manner. – Taylor.

AR-GU-MENT'A-TIVE-NESS, n.

State of being argumentative.

AR'GUS, n.

A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, placed by Juno to guard Io. The origin of this being may perhaps be found in the Teutonic word arg, crafty, cunning, of which the hundred eyes are symbolical.

AR'GUS-SHELL, n.

A species of porcelain-shell, beautifully variegated with spots, resembling, in some measure, a peacock's tail. – Encyc.

AR-GUTE', a. [L. argutus.]

Sharp; shrill; witty. [Little used.]

AR-GUTE'NESS, n.

Acuteness; wittiness. [Little used.] – Dryden.

A'RI-A, n. [It.]

Air, tune.

A'RI-AN, a.

Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century; or to his doctrines.

A'RI-AN, n.

One who adheres to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be a created being, inferior to God the father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings; and also that the Holy Spirit is not God, but created by the power of the Son. – Encyc.

A'RI-AN-ISM, n.

The doctrines of the Arians.

A'RI-AN-IZE, v.i.

To admit the tenets of the Arians. – Worthington.

A-RIC'I-NA, n. [From Arica, the name of a place in Peru.]

A vegetable alkaloid from a bark whose origin is not known, probably a species of Cinchona. It was first brought from Arica, in Peru.

AR'ID, a. [L. aridus, dry, from areo, to be dry.]

Dry; exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; as, an arid waste. – Thomson.

AR'ID-AS, n.

A kind of taffeta, from the East Indies, made of thread, from certain plants. – Encyc.

AR-ID'ITY, or AR'ID-NESS, n.

  1. Dryness; a state of being without moisture. – Arbuthnot.
  2. A dry state of the body; emaciation; the withering of a limb. – Coxe.

A'RI-ES, n. [L. from the Celtic. Ir. reithe, or receith; Corn. urz; a ram; W. hwrz, a thrust, a ram.]

The ram, a constellation of fixed stars, drawn on the globe, in the figure of a ram. It is the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 21st of March.

AR'I-E-TATE, v.i. [L. arieto, from aries.]

To butt, as a ram. [Not used.] – Johnson.

AR-I-E-TA'TION, n.

  1. The act of butting, as a ram. The act of battering with the aries or battering ram. – Bacon.
  2. The act of striking or conflicting. [Rarely used.] – Glanville.

AR-I-ET'TA, n. [It.]

A short song; an air, or little air.

A-RIGHT', adv. [a and right. Sax. gericht.]

Rightly; in right form; without mistake or crime.

AR'IL, or AR-IL'LUS, n.

The exterior coat or covering of a seed, fixed to it at the base only, investing it wholly or partially, and falling off spontaneously; by some writers called, from the Greek, Calyptra. It is either succulent, or cartilaginous; colored, elastic, rough or knotted. – Linnæus. Milne. Martyn. Smith. An expansion of the placenta about a seed, into a fleshy body, as the mace of a nutmeg. Lindley.

AR'IL-LA-TED, or AR'IL-LED, a.

Having an exterior covering or aril, as coffee. – Encyc. Eaton.

AR'I-MAN, or AR'I-MA, n. [or AH'RI-MAN; Per. ahriman; Sans. ari, a foe.]

The evil genius or demon of the Persians; opposed to yezad, yezdan, ormozd, or hormizda, the good demon. The ancient magi held, that there are two deities or principles; one the author of all good, eternally absorbed in light; the other, the author of all evil, forever buried in darkness; or the one represented by light; the other by darkness. The latter answers to the loke of the Scandinavians, whose Celtic name lock, signifies darkness. Originally, the Persians held these demons or principles to be equal, and from all eternity; but the moderns maintain that the evil principle is an inferior being. So the devil is called the prince of darkness. – Encyc. Gibbon. As. Researches.