Identifier: centurydictionary01whit Title: The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894 Smith, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Eli), 1857-1913 Subjects: English language Atlases Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries Publisher: New York : The Century Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: joof, not knowing: see agna:a.] 1. A Christian sect of the fourth agnostically (ag-nosti-kal-i)^ adv. In an ag-centuiy, which denied the omniscience of the nostic manner; from an agnostic point of view;Supreme Being, maintaining that God knows with a tendency or inclination to agnosticism;the past only by memory, and the future only as an agnostic. by inference from the present.—2. A sect agnosticism (a^-nosti-sizm), «. [< agnostic +of the sixth century, followers of Themistius, -,■,,«,.] i. The doctrines of the agnostics; thedeacon of Alexandria, who, on the authority of doctrine that the ultimate cause and the es-

Text Appearing After Image: Agnel of John II., King of France.(Size of the original.) To acknowledge; Of or pertaining to the absence of set purpose or intention. ^V. E. 1).agnomina, n. Phu-al of agnomen.agnomina! (ag-nomi-nal), ((. [< agnomen (ag- tiomiu-} + -at.] Oforixrtainingtoanagnomen.agnominatet (ag-nomi-nat), r. t. [< L. ag- nominnlus, pp. of agnominare, implied in ag- nominatio: see agnomination.] To name.The flowing currents silver streams . . .Shall be agnnmlnatid by our name. Locrine, iii. 2. agnomination (ag-nom-i-nashon), n. [< L.agnominatiij(n-), adnominatio(n-), paronomasia,l, to, + gnominare, nominare,name.] 1. An additional name or title; a nameadded to another, as expressive of some act,achievement, etc.; a surname.—2. Resem-blance in sound between one word and another,especially by alliteration ; also, the practice ofusing in close proximity to one another wordswhich resemble each other in sound (see an-nomination): as, Scott of Scotstar\-ets Stag-gering St

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