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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In petrography, in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks (see rock), a term indicating the presence of one or more of the normative minerals in the second subgroup of femic minerals.

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Examples

  • Critics also say the film is anti-S.mitic, as evidenced by the character portrayed by Mr. Busey -- a Jewish doctor who harvests organs from Arab captives in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison for resale in Tel Aviv and the U.S. The Trend:

    Campaigns Quick to Shake Loose Cannons 2008

  • S. O'BRIEN: Yes, the anti-S.mitic stuff you can't fix in rehab.

    CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2006 2006

  • S. O'BRIEN: Let's talk a little bit about the controversy over Mel Gibson's quite drunken anti-S.mitic rant of the summer.

    CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2006 2006

  • S.eam had permanently reddened his big S.mitic beak until it looked like the prow of the S.S. Tomato, like a stop signal designed in a wind tunnel.

    Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

  • Yushchenko's government shut down 26 branches of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, which in 2008 was named "one of the most persistent anti-S.mitic institutions in Eastern Europe" by the U.S. S.ate Department.

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

  • The program director of KMBZ radio in Kansas City says the station has no choice but to air commercials with racially biased and anti-S.mitic claims from a write-in candidate for the U.S. S.nate from Missouri.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

  • The program director of KMBZ radio in Kansas City says the station has no choice but to air commercials with racially biased and anti-S.mitic claims from a write-in candidate for the U.S. S.nate from Missouri.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

  • The program director of KMBZ radio in Kansas City says the station has no choice but to air commercials with racially biased and anti-S.mitic claims from a write-in candidate for the U.S. S.nate from Missouri.

    Free Internet Press 2010

  • On April 6, 2008, U.S. Permanent Representative said, "[W] e will not participate [in Durban Review Conference] unless it is proven that the conference will not be used as a platform for anti-S.mitic behavior."

    NGO Monitor News 2009

  • WAS.INGTON (AP) -- An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-S.mitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authorities said.

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