"AMYL NITRITE" (isoamyl nitrite), C5H11·ONO, a liquid prepared by passing nitrous fumes (from starch and concentrated nitric acid) into warm isoamyl alcohol; or by distilling a mixture of More…
"AMYMONE", in ancient Greek legend, daughter of Danaüs. With her sisters, she had been sent to look for water, the district of Argos being then parched through the anger of Poseidon. More…
"AMYNTAS I.", king of Macedonia ('c.' 540–498 ), was a tributary vassal of Darius Hystaspes. With him the history of Macedonia may be said to begin. He was the first of its rulers to have More…
"AMYNTAS II." (or III.), son of Arrhidaeus, great-grandson of Alexander I., king of Macedonia from 393 (or 389) to 369 He came to the throne after the ten years of confusion which followed More…
"ANANIAS", the Gr. form of Hananiah, or Ananiah, a name occurring several times in the Old Testament and Apocrypha (Neh. iii. 23, 1 Ch. xxv. 23, Tob. v. 12. &c.), and three times in the More…
"ANANTAPUR", a town and district of India, in the Madras presidency. The town has a station on the Madras railway, 62 m. S.E. from Bellary. Pop. (1901) 7938. The district of Anantapur More…
"ANAPA", a seaport town of Russia, in the government of Kuban, on the N. coast of the Black Sea, 45 m. S.E. from the Strait of Yenikale or Kerch, giving access to the Sea of Azov. It was More…
"ANAPAEST" (from Gr. 'άνάπαιστος', reversed), a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short and the third long and accented; so called as the reverse of a dactyl, which More…
"ANDERSON, MARY" (1859- ), American actresswas born at Sacramento, California, on the 28th of July 1859. Her father,an officer in the Confederate More…
"ANQUETIL DUPERRON, ABRAHAM HYACINTHE" (1731-1805), French orientalist, brother of Louis Pierre Anquetil, the historian, was born in Paris on the 7th of December 1731. He was educated for More…
"ANTHON, CHARLES" (1797-1867), American classical scholar, was born in New York city on the 19th of November 1797. After graduating with honours at Columbia College in 1815, he began More…
"ANTIPHILUS", a Greek painter of the age of Alexander. Heworked for Philip of Macedon and Ptolemy I. of Egypt. Thushe was a contemporary of Apelles, whose rival he is said to havebeen, More…
"APODICTIC" (Gr. ἀποδεικτός, capable of demonstration), a logical term, applied to judgments which are necessarily true, as of mathematical conclusions. The term in Aristotelian logic is More…
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