1. The doctrine of God's self- existence. [R.]
2. Deification of one's self; self-worship. [R.]
Autotheist
(Au"to*the`ist), n. One given to self- worship. [R.]
Autotype
(Au"to*type) n. [Auto- + - type: cf. F. autotype.]
1. A facsimile.
2. A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and
subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.
Autotypography
(Au`to*ty*pog"ra*phy) n. [Auto- + typography.] A process resembling "nature printing," by
which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is
done as from copperplate.
Autotypy
(Au*tot"y*py) n. The art or process of making autotypes.
Autumn
(Au"tumn) n. [L. auctumnus, autumnus, perh. fr. a root av to satisfy one's self: cf. F. automne.
See Avarice.]
1. The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically,
it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the
winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September,
October, and November.
In England, according to Johnson, autumn popularly comprises August, September, and October. In
the southern hemisphere, the autumn corresponds to our spring.
2. The harvest or fruits of autumn. Milton.
3. The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.
Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor.
Fuller.
Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.
Wordsworth.
Autumnal
(Au*tum"nal) a. [L. auctumnalis, autumnalis: cf. F. automnal.]
1. Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as,
autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant.
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
In Vallombrosa.
Milton.
2. Past the middle of life; in the third stage.
An autumnal matron.
Hawthorne.
Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it
passes the autumnal point. — Autumnal point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as
the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra. — Autumnal signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and
Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice.
Auxanometer
(Aux`a*nom"e*ter) n. [Gr. to cause to increase + -meter.] An instrument to measure the
growth of plants. Goodale.
