RADARIA

A branchia (a-brang'ki-ä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl . of a branch i us : see a branch i ous .] A name given to several different groups of animals which have no gills: ( a ) To a group of vertebrates, comprising mammals, birds, and reptiles (or Mammal i a and Sauropsida ), whose young never po e gills. The Abraxas, collection of the British Museum. group is thus, contrasted with Batrachia and Pisces col- Abraxas (ab- rak's as), ". [See def. 2, and cf. abra- cadabra.] 1. In antiq ., а IMG:content-0081.png:[blocks in formation] abridge. Chaucer . abrenouncet (ab-re-nouns), v. t. [L. ab , from (here intensive), + E. renounce , after LL. abrenuntiare , ab + renuntiare , renounce: see renounce .] To renounce absolutely. their wives or their livings. Under pain of the pope's curse.. either to a bren ounce Foxe , Book of Martyrs, Acts and Deeds, fol. 159. a bren unci at i on) (ab-re-nun-si-a's hon), n. [ abrenuntiatio ( n- ), abrenuntiare : see a bren ounce.] Renunciation; absolute denial. An a bren unci at i on of that truth which he so long had profe ed. Hurt of Sedition , iii. b. abreptiont (ab-rep's hon), n. [ ab- reptio (n-), abripere , pp. abreptus , snatch away, ab , away, + rapere , seize: see rapt and rav- ish .] The state of being carried away or forci- bly separated; separation. generally combines human and brute forms) and an unintelligible legend, but sometimes inscribed with the word Abraxas , either alone or accompanying a figure or a word connected Osiris . - 2. A mystical word used by the Gnostic followers of Basilides to denoto the Supreme Being, X+111 tions collectively, or the 365 orders of spirits oc- cupying the 365 heavens. Later it was commonly applied to any symbolical representation of Gnostic ideas. It is said to have been coined by Basilides in the Abraxas. (Both examples are second century, from the sum of of the Basilidian type.) the Greek numeral letters ex- = 60, a = 1, s = 200; total, 365. Also written Abrasax . 3. A genus of lepidopterous insects, of the family family Geometrid a , containing the large mag- pie-moth, Abraxas gro ular i at a . The larvæ are very destructive to gooseberry and currant-bushes in Europe, consuming their leaves as soon as they appear. abrayt (a-bra'), v. i. [A false pres. form, made from ME. pret. abrayde , a braide , taken for a weak verb, with pret. ending -de (= E. -cd), whereas the verb is strong, with pret. abrayde , a braide , properly abraid , abreid ( a braide , AS. abregde , inf. abregdan : see abraid. To awake. But, whenas I did out of sleep abray , I found her not where I left her why leare. abrazite (ab'ra-zīt), n. [ a- priv., not, + βράζειν , boil, ferment, + -ite2 .] A mineral found at Capo di Bove, near Rome, probably 3. To le en; diminish: as, to abridge labor. Power controlled or abridged is almost always the rival abridged . and enemy of that power by which it is controlled or A. Hamilton , Federalist, No. 15. the same as that named zeagonite and later gism ondine (which see). abrazitic (ab-ra-zit'ik), a. Not effervescing, as in acids or when heated before the blowpipe: said of certain minerals. [Rare.] abread, abreed (a-bred'), prep. phr. as adv. [Sc., abrede , on brede , in breadth: a , on , prep.; brede , brād , broad: see a3 and breadth , and cf. abroad.] Abroad. Burns . Also spelled abraid . [Scotch.] IMG:content-0082.png:[blocks in formation] or accidental defacement. Criticks have been represented as the great abridgers of the native liberty of genius. H. Blair , Lectures, iii. Abridgers are a kind of literary men to whom the indolence of modern readers give(s) ample employment. I. D'Israeli, Curios, of Lit., II. 67. abridgment