These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Anthropoid, Anthropology, Anthropomancy.
resembling man; a term applied especially to the apes, which approach the human species in the following order: 1st (most remote), the gibbons; 2d, the orangs; 3d, the chimpanzee; and, 4th (nearest), the gorilla.
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the science of man in the widest sense of the term. The word anthropology has been variously defined as "The doctrine of anatomy; the doctrine of the form and structure of the body of man." The word is also applied to the science which investigates the relation in which man stands to the inferior animals. In this sense ethnology is a cognate science to anthropology.
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Divination by the entrails of men or women. This horrible usage is very ancient. Herodotus said that Menelaus, detained in Egypt by contrary winds, sacrificed to his barbarous curiosity, two children of the country, and sought to discover his destiny by means of anthropomancy. Heliogabalus practised this means of divination. Julian the Apostate, in his magical operations, during his nocturnal sacrifices, caused, it is said, a large number of children to be killed, so that he might consult their entrails. In his last expedition, being at Carra, in Mesopotamia, he shut himself in the Temple of the Moon, and having done all manner of evil there, he sealed the Antichrist doors and posted a guard, whose duty it was to see that they were not opened until his return. However, he was killed in battle with the Persians, and those who entered the Temple of Carra, in the reign of Julian's successor, found there a woman hanging by her hair, with her liver torn out. It is probable that Gilles de Retz (q.v.) also practised this dreadful species of divination.
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the measurement of the human body to discover its exact dimensions and the proportions of its parts for comparison with its dimensions at different periods, or in different races or classes. Cranial measurements have long been adopted by anthropologists as the basis of their classifications of races; but the conformation of the skull and the relation of its height to its breadth vary so much within the same tribe as not to be, of themselves, sufficient data on which to rest generalizations. The French anthropologists depend much more on anthropometry than the English, and have adopted a form of schedule containing as many as 102 different observations of a single individual. The anthropometric committee of the English Anthropological Society dis tributed the average stature of British adult males into racial elements as follows: Early British, 66.6 inches; Saxon, 67.2; Scandinavian, 68.3; Anglian, 68.7. Similar detailed anthropometric measurements will be seen in the special anthropological journals, French, English, and German, and in the more scientific of recent books of travel. The French police systematically employ anthropometric methods for the indentification of criminals, carefully recording for future_use See BERthe various measurements. TILLON SYSTEM.
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the attributing of a human form to God. When this is really done it is a gross degradation of the Divinity and is condemned casualties in Scripture. But when the only anthropomorphism is the use of metaphorical phrases, such as the arm of the Lord (Ps. lxxvii: 15), or His eyes (Ps. xi: 4), of His ears (Ps. xxxiv: 15), to make abstract ideas more readily conceivable, the practice has the countenance of Scripture itself.
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A people of Scythia who fed on human flesh. They lived near the country of the Messagetae. Shakespeare makes Othello, in his speech to the Senate, allude to the Anthropophagi thus : "The cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders."
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anyone who denies the Father and the Son; or who will not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, or who, leaving the Church, pretends to be the Christ (or Messiah), and thus becomes a rival and enemy of Jesus, the true Christ. In a special sense one who should preeminently stand forth as the antagonist of Christ, and should be a sufficiently prominent personage to become the theme prophecy; or if anti be held to mean of instead of, then the characteristic of Antichrist will be a supercession of Christ, tion ( 1793 not an avowed antagonism to Him. went out ANTICLINAL LINE or AXIS, in geology, the ridge of a wavelike curve made by a series of superimposed strata, the place. strata dipping from it on either side as from the ridge of a house: a synclinal line runs along the trough of such a wave.
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members of a political party, in the United States, which opposed the adoption and ratification of the constitution, and failing in this, strongly favored favored the strict construction of it. The strengthening of the National Government at the expense of the States was also opposed. Soon after the close of Washington's first administra- ) the name of Anti - Federal of use, the term Republican, and afterward Democratic-Republican and Non-Democratic, alone taking its
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a political organization in opposition to Freemasonry. In 1826 William Morgan, a Freemason, living in Batavia, N. Y., was suspected of being in league with other Masons in preparing a revelation of Masonic secrets. The report that Morgan, who had disappeared suddenly, had been abducted and drowned, caused much excitement, which finally gave rise to a political party. By 1832 the party had spread to other States and William Wirt was nominated for President, and Amos Ellmaker for Vice-President. This ticket was carried in Vermont only. In 1832 the party nearly elected Joseph Ritner Governor of Pennsylvania, and, in 1835, through a split in the Democratic Party, did elect him. From then on it disappeared as suddenly as it had come into existence. ANTI-MILITARISM. See MILITARISM.
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a party which gained some political influence in New York, and which had its origin in the refusal of tenants, who were dissatisfied with the patroon system in vogue in 1839, to pay rent. The matter was settled by compromise in 1850.
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an organization whose activities were undoubtedly the chief factor in the promotion of nation-wide prohibition under a Constitutional Amendment and the Volstead act which went into effect Jan. 16, 1920. The first step was the formation of the Anti- Saloon League of Ohio, chiefly through the labors of Dr. Howard H. Russell at Oberlin, in 1893. The basic idea was that the work so far had all been done under moral and religious auspices-by the churches, the W. C. T. U., and like organizations; that the results in the Prohibition party were of slow growth, and that a live organization was needed to influence political thought and action directly. The prime aim of the League was to take the prohibition movement immediately into the sphere of politics. Up to that time the work had been chiefly educational, and results were slow in coming. The League frankly declared the liquor traffic to be a political issue and started out from the beginning to attack it in that way. The only way to get prohibition was by laws-the only way to get the laws was to directly influence public opinion to elect the men who would make
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