454 Mr. Pickering on the present state of the English language 
Scotticism ;” and it has accordingly been generally so used in America. 
To AMERICANIZE, “ to render American.” Webst. I have never met with 
this verb in any American writer, nor in conversation. 
ANNULMENT ; the annulling: “ the annulment of the belligerent edicts.” 
Correspondence of the Sec. of State and Mr. Pinkney, in 1810. Thissub- 
stantive is not to be found in the dictionaries. 
ANTAGONIZING ; conflicting, opposing. 
This word has been censured, by an American critic, as used in the following 
"passage of a well known American publication—“ Nor can I forbear to 
remark the tendency of such antagonizing appeals,” &c. This is the only 
instance in which I have known it to be used in this country. Jo/nson has 
the verb to antagonize, which he defines “ to contend against another” but 
his authority is the Dictionaries ; and he says in his preface, that such words 
in his work “ are to be considered as resting only upon the credit of those 
dictionaries.” Mr. Webster has not admitted it into his dictionary. 
ANTIFEDERALIST. ‘This word was formed about the year 1788, to denote a 
person of the political party that cepoent aie y ane tee Constitu- 
> m2 fat. ~ er =— - 
; basiee aes vnited St tates, which was th then f by th of 
the Federat Cor Sihe-word fs wobec “neéd now, having been 
superseded by various other names, which have been successively giyen to 
the same party. See Federalist. 
APPELLATE;; relating to appeals: “ In all cases affecting ambassadors, &c- 
the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction: In all the other cases 
before mentioned the Supreme Court shall have affellate je 
~ Constitut. of U. States, art. 3. 
- This is criticised as an American word in an English review of Mar- 
_ shall’s Life of Washington. The reviewers’ remark is, that Judge Mar- 
shall uses “ efpellate court for court of appeals ; appellate being the term 
applicable to the ferson against whom the appeal is made.” Annual Rev. 
Jor 1808, p. 241. The reviewers probably consulted Johnson, who cites 
from Ayliffe’s Parergon [of the Canon law] the following expression —* the 
name of the party affel/ate, or person against whom the appeal is made.” 
Mason, in his Supplement, makes the following remark upon this citation: 
