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{ , a. Of or pert. to aëromechanics. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

/mhw> a. Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deviating from the proper order of time. -- An`ti*chron"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an archegonium.
Syn. -- archegonial [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. bearing archegonia.
Syn. -- archegonial [ PJC ]

{ } a. [ L. architectonicus, Gr. &unr_;. See Architect. ] 1. Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. “Architectonic wisdom.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to the systemizing of knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. a corruption of ptarmica. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The tincture of arnica is applied externally as a remedy for bruises, sprains, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenical vapor; arsenical wall papers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arsenical silver, an ore of silver containing arsenic. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arsenicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Arsenicating. ] To combine with arsenic; to treat or impregnate with arsenic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tumultuous; disorderly. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Harrington. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. botanique. See Botany. ] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Bo*tan"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. --
Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots. [1913 Webster]

{ , a. Harsh-sounding. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. canonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See canon. ] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons. “The oath of canonical obedience.” Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Appearing in a Biblical canon; as, a canonical book of the Christian New Testament. [ PJC ]

3. Accepted as authoritative; recognized. [ PJC ]

4. (Math.) In its standard form, usually also the simplest form; -- of an equation or coordinate. [ PJC ]

5. (Linguistics) Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; as, a canonical syllable pattern. Opposite of nonstandard.
Syn. -- standard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

6. Pertaining to or resembling a musical canon. [ PJC ]

Canonical books, or
Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. --
Canonical epistles, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles, under Canholic. --
Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. --
Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. --
Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. --
Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. --
Canonical obedience, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. --
Canonical punishments, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. --
Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a canonical manner; according to the canons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being canonical; canonicity. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The dress prescribed by canon{ 2 } to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full canonicals, the complete costume of an officiating clergyman or ecclesiastic.

n. [ LL. canonucatus canonical: cf. F. canonicat. ] The office of a canon; a canonry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish. -- Char`la*tan"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Chronic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Partly on a chronical, and partly on a topical method. J. A. Alexander. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ Gr. kliniko`s, fr. kli`nh bed, fr. kli`nein to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, v. i. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. --
Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. --
Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients. --
Clinical medicine,
Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a clinical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. colonus husbandman. ] Of or pertaining to husbandmen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. communicabilité. ] The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis. ] 1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Communicative; free-speaking. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson.

-- Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mu"ni*ca"bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. communicans, p. pr. ] 1. One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. [ 1913 Webster ]

A never-failing monthly communicant. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who communicates. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Communicating. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye did communicate with my affliction. Philip. iv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give alms, sympathy, or aid. [ 1913 Webster ]

To do good and to communicate forget not. Heb. xiii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune. [ 1913 Webster ]

The primitive Christians communicated every day. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Communicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Communicating. ] [ L. communicatus, p. p. of communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See Commune, v. i. ] 1. To share in common; to participate in. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To thousands that communicate our loss. B. Jonson [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To administer the communion to. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She [ the church ] . . . may communicate him. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it. [ 1913 Webster ]

He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. Clarendon.

Syn. -- To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known. -- To Communicate, Impart, Reveal. Communicate is the more general term, and denotes the allowing of others to partake or enjoy in common with ourselves. Impart is more specific. It is giving to others a part of what we had held as our own, or making them our partners; as, to impart our feelings; to impart of our property, etc. Hence there is something more intimate in imparting intelligence than in communicating it. To reveal is to disclose something hidden or concealed; as, to reveal a secret. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the activity of communicating.
Syn. -- communication. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. communicatio. ] 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Argument . . . and friendly communication. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Association; company. [ 1913 Webster ]

Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Cor. xv. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Participation in the Lord's supper. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Rhet.) A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie.

Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. used in communication; as, he had few communicational grooves available for use. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. Communicatif, LL. communicativus. ] Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being communicative. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who communicates. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. communicatorius. ] Imparting knowledge or information. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canonical and communicatory letters. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. conique. See Cone. ] 1. Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conic section (Geom.), a curved line formed by the intersection of the surface of a right cone and a plane. The conic sections are the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. The right lines and the circle which result from certain positions of the plane are sometimes, though not generally included. --
Conic sections, that branch of geometry which treats of the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. --
Conical pendulum. See Pendulum. --
Conical projection, a method of delineating the surface of a sphere upon a plane surface as if projected upon the surface of a cone; -- much used by makers of maps in Europe. --
Conical surface (Geom.), a surface described by a right line moving along any curve and always passing through a fixed point that is not in the plane of that curve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Conicalness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the form of a cone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or quality of being conical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Belonging to cosmogony. B. Powell. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. cynicus of the sect of Cynics, fr. Gr. kyniko`s, prop., dog-like, fr. ky`wn, kyno`s, dog. See Hound. ] 1. Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.

I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; believing the worst of human nature and motives; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; having a sneering disbelief in the selflessness of others; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.
Syn. -- misanthropic, misanthropical. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In prose, cynical is used rather than cynic, in the senses 1 and 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cynic spasm (Med.), a convulsive contraction of the muscles of one side of the face, producing a sort of grin, suggesting certain movements in the upper lip of a dog. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a cynical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being cynical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; second + E. canonical. ] Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ Gr. dia` through + &unr_; sound, tone. ] Diacoustic. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a diatonic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]