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  • AT LARGE
    (1) Not limited to any particular place, district, person, matter, or question. (2) Free; unrestrained; not under corporal control; as a ferocious animal so free from restraint as to be liable to do mischief. (3) Fully; in detail; in an extended form.
  • AT LAW
    According to law; by, for, or in law; particularly in distinction from that which is done in or according to equity; or in titles such as sergeant at law, barrister at law, attorney or counsellor at law. See Hooker v. Nichols, 116 N. a 157, 21 S. B. 208.
  • AT SEA
    Out of the limits of any port or harbor on the sea-coast. The Harriet 1 Story, 251, Fed. Cas. No. 6,099. See Wales v. Insurance Co., 8 Allen (Mass.) 380; Hubbard v. Hubbard, 8 N. Y. 199; Ex parte Thompson, 4 Bradf. Sur. (N. Y.) 158; Hut-ton v. Insurance Co., More...
  • ATAMITA
    In the civil law. A great-great-great-grandfather's sister.
  • ATAVIA
    In the civil law. A great-grandmother's grandmother.
  • ATAVUNCULUS
    The brother of a great-grandfather's grandmother.
  • ATAVUS
    The great-grandfather's or great-grandmother's grandfather; a fourth grandfather. The ascending line of lineal ancestry runs thus: Pater, Avm, Proavus, Abavus, Atavus, Tritavus. The seventh generation In the ascending scale will be Tritavipater, and the next above it Proaviatavus.
  • ATHA
    In Saxon law. An oath; the power or privilege of exacting and administering an oath. Spelman.
  • ATHEIST
    One who does not believe in the existence of a God. Gibson v. Insurance Oo., 37 N. Y. 584; Thurston v. Whitney, 2 Cush. (Mass.) 110; Com. v. Hills, 10 Cush. (Mass.) 53a.
  • ATIA
    Hatred or ill-will. See DE ODIO ET ATIA.
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