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{ } a. Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., Scythian lamb. ] (Bot.) The Scythian lamb, a kind of woolly-skinned rootstock. See Barometz. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Cf. F. allopathique. ] Of or pertaining to allopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lacking grammatical sequence. -- An`a*co*lu"thic*al*ly adv. [1913 Webster]

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to angiopathy. [ AS ]

Angiopathic neuropathy (Med.), A condition characterized by arteritis of the blood vessels supplying neurons. [ AS ]

a. [ See Anorthite. ] (Min.) Having unequal oblique axes; as, anorthic crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. "e`lmins, -inqos, worm, esp. a tapeworm, or mawworm. See also helminth] (Med.) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms. -- n. An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]
Syn. -- helminthic, parasiticidal [1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to anthropopathy. [ R. ] -- An`thro*po*path"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. H. Rogers. [1913 Webster]

a. (Med.) Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed. -- n. An antilithic medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. antipathicus, Gr. &unr_; of opposite feelings. ] (Med.) Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'archai^os ancient + liqiko`s pertaining to a stone. ] (Archæol.) Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Auto-, and Pathic, a. ] (Med.) Dependent upon, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. Of or pertaining to a batholith. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ fr. Gr. be`nqos depth of the sea. ] of, pertaining to, or occurring at the bottom of a body of water, especially referring to the ocean depths. [ PJC ]

a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Teaching what is useful. “A chrestomathic school.” Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Relating to stone in the bladder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. de`rma, -atos, skin + pa`qos suffering. ] (Med.) Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Dermatopathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Serving to palliate; palliative. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; as, the Puritan ethic. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- moral principle, value-system, value orientation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- ethical code. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ L. ethicus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; custom, usage, character, dwelling; akin to &unr_; custom, Goth. sidus, G. sitte, Skr. svadh&unr_;, prob. orig., one's own doing; sva self + dh&unr_; to set: cf. F. éthique. See So, Do. ] Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ethical meaning of the miracles. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ethical dative (Gram.), a use of the dative of a pronoun to signify that the person or thing spoken of is regarded with interest by some one; as, Quid mihi Celsus agit? How does my friend Celsus do? [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to, in harmony with, moral principles or character. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. éthique. See Ethic. ] The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics. [ 1913 Webster ]

The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. (Chem.) Having a yellow color; pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, euxanthin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Euxanthic acid (Chem.), a yellow, crystalline, organic acid, extracted from euxanthin. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Feldspathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. gna`qos the jaw. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the jaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gnathic index, in a skull, the ratio of the distance from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the basion (taken equal to 100), to the distance from the basion to the middle of the front edge of the upper jaw; -- called also alveolar index. [ 1913 Webster ]

Skulls with the gnathic index below 98 are orthognathous, from 98 to 103 mesognathous, and above 103 are prognathous. Flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Gothicus: cf. F. gothique. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Bishop Ulfilas or Walfila translated most of the Bible into Gothic about the Middle of the 4th century. The portion of this translaton which is preserved is the oldest known literary document in any Teutonic language. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This is Nonpareil GOTHIC. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A Gothic idiom. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Rudeness of manners; barbarousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gothicized p. pr. & vb. n. Gothicizing ] To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.

n. [ L. granum a grain (or E. granite) + -lith + -ic. ] A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. helminthique. ] Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms. -- n. A vermifuge; an anthelmintic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hetero- + Gr. &unr_; suffering, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. homéopathique. ] Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy. [ Also homœpathic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to the practice of homeopathy. [ Also homœopathically. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a., n., n. Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to hydropathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hydro-, 2 + xanthic. ] (Chem.) Persulphocyanic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. idiopathique. ] (Med.) Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic. -- Id`i*o*path"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. labyrinthicus: cf. F. labyrinthique. ] Like or pertaining to a labyrinth. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Labyrinth. ] (Zool.) An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the gills while the fish leaves the water and travels about on land, or even climbs trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. liqiko`s of or belonging to stones, fr. li`qos stone: cf. F. lithique. ] 1. Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lithic acid (Old Med. Chem.), uric acid. See Uric acid, under Uric. [ 1913 Webster ]