autophagous (at of a gus)

[NL. autopha gus, self-feeding, ing, [F. autophagie ; The act of feeding [ autopsy (a'top-si), n. [ inspection of a dead body to discover the cause of death, or the site and character of the disease of which the person died; post-mortem examination; a post-mortem. autoptic (a-top'tik), a. [ with one's own eyes; relating to or based on autopsy or personal observation: as, autoptic evidence. Also written autopsic. autoptical (a-top'ti-kal), a. Same as autoptic. Oral tradition or autoptical memoirs. Schaff, Hist. Christ. Ch., I. § 82. autoptically (a-top'ti-kal-i), adv. In an autoptic manner; by ocular view or one's own observation. Also written autopsic ally. That the galaxy is a meteor, was the account of Aristotle; but the telescope hath autoptically confuted it. Glanville, Scep. Sci., p. 174. [Rare.] autophon (a'tō-fon), n. [ αὐτόφωνος , selfautort, n. An obsolete form of author . sounding, αὐτός , self, + φωνή, voice, sound.] autorialt, a. An obsolete form of authorial . A form of barrel-organ, of which the tunes are autorityt, n. An obsolete form of authority . determined by perforations in a sheet of mill- board cut to correspond with the desired notes. E. H. Knight. did not carry with them a scheme for. an autonomous province of Eastern Roumelia. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 445. 3. Subject to its own laws; specifically, in biol., independent of any other organism; not a form or stage of development of some other organ autonomously (a-ton'ō-mus-li), adv. In an autonomous manner; from one's own choice. We must know and autonomously will to follow non egoistic absolute ends as e entially our ends. G. S. Hall, German Culture, p. 183. autonomy (a-ton'ō-mi), n.; pl. autonomies (-miz). [ There was nothing in the treaty of Adrianople that really interfered with the autonomy of the Circa ians. Latham , Nationalities of Europe, I. xxxii. That which is autonomy objectively will be self-determination subjectively. Maudsley , Body and Will, p. 189. 2. A self-governing community.-3. An autonomous condition; the condition of being subject only to its own laws; especially, in biol . , organic independence. The government of the Arabs may be called almost an autonomy . R. F. Burton , El-Medinah, p. 341.