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{ } Opposed to monarchial government. Bp. Benson. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'archiko`s able to govern, fr. 'archh` beginning, government. See Arch-, pref. ] Chief; primary; primordial. [ Obs. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 of or pertaining to autocracy.
Syn. -- autarchical [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , a. [ L. Bacchicus, Gr. Bakchiko`s. ] Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication; riotously drunken; -- used of revelrous gatherings.
Syn. -- bacchanalian, bacchanal, bibulous, carousing, drunken(prenominal), orgiastic, riotous [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , a. } [ Gr. bi`os life + psychic, -cal. ] Pertaining to psychical phenomena in their relation to the living organism or to the general phenomena of life. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., prob. of Mex. origin. ] (Bot.) A Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone platyceras), which has migrated into California. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F., prob. earlier meaning a dispute, orig. in the game of mall (F. mail), fr. LGr. &unr_; the game of mall, fr Pers chaugān club or bat; or possibly ultimated fr. L. ciccus a trible. ] 1. The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cut short this chicane, I propound it fairly to your own conscience. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Card playing) In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ Cf. F. chicaner. See Chicane, n. ] To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. chicaneur. ] One who uses chicanery. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chicanerie. ] Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam.

Syn. -- Trickery; sophistry; stratagem. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted: Colchicum; Gloriosa.
Syn. -- family Colchicaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to an elench. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By means of an elench. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. hiérarchique. ] Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv. Syn. -- hierarchical, hierarchal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy; as, a hierarchical relation. [ PJC ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; wood, matter + &unr_;: cf. F. hylarchique. See Archical. ] Presiding over matter. [ Obs. ] Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ F. monarchique, Gr. &unr_;. ] Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy. Burke. -- Mo*nar"chic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

adj. Not arranged in a hierarchy. Opposite of hierarchical. [ Narrower terms: ungraded, unordered, unranked ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. oligarchique. See Oligarchy. ] Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few. “Oligarchical exiles.” Jowett (Thucyd.). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. psychicus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. psychh` the soul, mind; cf. &unr_; to blow: cf. F. psychique. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term was formerly used to express the same idea as psychological. Recent metaphysicians, however, have employed it to mark the difference between psychh` the living principle in man, and pney^ma the rational or spiritual part of his nature. In this use, the word describes the human soul in its relation to sense, appetite, and the outer visible world, as distinguished from spiritual or rational faculties, which have to do with the supersensible world. Heyse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Psychical blindness,
Psychical deafness (Med.), forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen. --
Psychical contagion, the transference of disease, especially of a functional nervous disease, by mere force of example. --
Psychical medicine, that department of medicine which treats of mental diseases. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. stomachicus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. stomachique. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. [ 1913 Webster ]

Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By synecdoche. [ 1913 Webster ]