Antiperistasis :: Antiperistasis (n.) Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.
Apostasy :: Apostasy (n.) An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity..
Attask :: Attask (v. t.) To take to task; to blame.
Attaste :: Attaste (v. t.) To taste or cause to taste.
Catastaltic :: Catastaltic (a.) Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities.
Catastasis :: Catastasis (n.) That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed..
Catastasis :: Catastasis (n.) The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body..
Catasterism :: Catasterism (n.) A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars.
Catastrophe :: Catastrophe (n.) An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune..
Catastrophe :: Catastrophe (n.) The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy..
Catastrophe :: Catastrophe (n.) A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes..
Catastrophic :: Catastrophic (a.) Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.
Catastrophism :: Catastrophism (n.) The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.
Catastrophist :: Catastrophist (n.) One who holds the theory or catastrophism.
Dakotas :: Dakotas (n. pl) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux..