autochthonism (atokthonizm)

[ According to the Scythians, Targitaus lived just a thou sand years before the year 513 B. C.- a legend which, taken with the tradition of autochthonism, indicates a much earlier date for the immigration of the Scythians than we should deduce from other narratives. IMG:content-1428.png:[blocks in formation] phets or reformers. Max Müller , India, p. 116. One would almost be inclined to think from Herr Stahr's account of the matter, that Le ing had been an autoch thonous birth of the German soil, without intellectual ancestry or helpful kindred. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 301. 2. In pathol., not extraneous; originating at the place where found. autochthonously (a-tok'tho-nus-li), adv. In an autochthonous manner. The larger number of maladies do not arise autochthonously or "under a whole skin." Encyc . Brit ., XVIII. 361. autochthony (a-tok'tho-ni), n. [ +-y.] The condition of being autochthonous. The practice of describing legendary heroes and men of ancient lineage as earth-born, γηγενεῖς, strengthened great ly the doctrine of autochthony, and nowhere so much as Encyc. Brit ., III. 141. in Attica. autoclave (a'tō-klāv), n. [F., self-regulating, a digester, own actions. South , Sermons, VII. i. It [the divine will] moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy . South , Sermons, VIII. x. 2. Uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others, invested in a single person; the government or power of an absolute monarch. At least from the days of Hildebrand the mind of Europe had become familiarized with the a ertion of those claims which in their latent significance amounted to an absolute irresponsible autocracy. Milman , Latin Christianity, ix. 1. 3t. In med., action of the vital powers toward the preservation of the individual.=Syn. 2. Tyr anny, Absolutism, etc. See despotism. autocrat (a'tō-krat), n. [F. auto crate, The Ru ian government is autocratic , inasmuch as over the larger part of the country it has simply succeeded to the position of the Mongolian khans, who from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century held the Ru ian people in subjection. J. Fiske, Amer. Pol. Ideas, p. 43. Same as au autocratical (a-tō-krat'i-kal), a. tocratic. autocratically (a-to-krat'i-kal-i), adv. In an autocratic manner. autocrat or (a-tok'ra-tor), n. [ The picturesque spiked Maced on i an helmet with a goat's horn and cheek-piece which occupies the reverse [of a coin), on which is written after "King Tryphon" the IMG:content-1429.png:[blocks in formation] autocrat or i cal (atō-kra-tor'i-kal), a. [