Part 735

<hw>At"a*man</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Russ. <ets>ataman'</ets>: cf. Pol. <ets>hetman</ets>, G. <ets>hauptmann</ets> headman, chieftain. Cf. <er>Hetman</er>.]</ety> <def>A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.</def>

<h1>Ataraxia, Ataraxy</h1> <Xpage=95>

<hw><hw>At`a*rax"i*a</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>At"a*rax`y</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. <ets>ataraxia</ets>, Gr. <?/; <?/ priv. + <?/ disturbed, <?/ to disturb.]</ety> <def>Perfect peace of mind, or calmness.</def>

<h1>Ataunt, Ataunto</h1> <Xpage=95>

<hw><hw>A*taunt"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>A*taunt"o</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>autant</ets> as much (as possible).]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.</def>

<h1>Atavic</h1> <Xpage=95>

<hw>A*tav"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>atavique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism.</def>

<h1>Atavism</h1> <Xpage=95>

<hw>At"a*vism</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>atavus</ets> an ancestor, fr. <ets>avus</ets> a grandfather.]</ety> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.</def>

<blockquote>Now and then there occur cases of what physiologists call <b>atavism</b>, or reversion to an ancestral type of character. <i>J. Fiske</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ataxia, Ataxy</h1> <Xpage=95>

<hw><hw>A*tax"i*a</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>At"ax*y</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. <ets>ataxia</ets>, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ out of order; <?/ priv. + <?/ ordered, arranged, <?/ to put in order: cf. F. <ets>ataxie</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Disorder; irregularity.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Irregularity in disease, or in the functions.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition.</def>

<cs><col>Locomotor ataxia</col>. <cd>See <er>Locomotor</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Ataxic</h1> <Xpage=95>

<hw>A*tax"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>ataxique</ets>. See <er>Ataxia</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Characterized by ataxy, that is, <sd>(a)</sd> by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or <sd>(b)</sd> by a want of coordinating power in movements.</def>

<cs><col>Ataxic fever</col>, <cd>malignant typhus fever.</cd></cs>

<i>Pinel.</i>

<h1>Atazir</h1> <Xpage=95>

<hw>At`a*zir"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF., fr. Ar. <ets>al</ets>-<ets>tas\'c6r</ets> influence.]</ety> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>The influence of a star upon other stars or upon men.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Ate</h1> <Xpage=95>

<hw>Ate</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <def>the preterit of <er>Eat</er>.</def>

<h1>Ate</h1> <Xpage=95>

<hw>A"te</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/.]</ety> <fld>(Greek. Myth.)</fld> <def>The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.</def>

<h1>-ate</h1> <Xpage=95>

<hw>-ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>. <ety>[From the L. suffix -<ets>atus</ets>, the past participle ending of verbs of the 1st conj.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -<i>ed</i>; <as>as, situ<ex>ate</ex> or situated; anim<ex>ate</ex> or animated.</as></def>