An*ni`hi*la"tion*ist, n. (Theol.) One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.
An*ni"hi*la*tive (&?;), a. Serving to annihilate; destructive.
An*ni"hi*la`tor (&?;), n. One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator.
An*ni"hi*la*to*ry (&?;), a. Annihilative.
An`ni*ver"sa*ri*ly (&?;), adv. Annually. [R.] Bp. Hall.
An`ni*ver"sa*ry (&?;), a. [L. anniversarius; annus year + vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. anniversaire.] Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast.
Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]
An`ni*ver"sa*ry, n.; pl. Anniversaries (&?;). [Cf. F. anniversaire.] 1. The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
2. (R. C. Ch.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.