‖n. [ NL.; a- not + Gr. le`xis speech, fr. le`gein to speak, confused with L. legere to read. ] (Med.) (a) Inability to read aloud, due to brain disease; the meanings of the words is nevertheless understood. Called also motor alexia. (b) Inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols. Called also Word blindness and text blindness. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

{ } a. & n. [ See Alexipharmic. ] Alexipharmic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'alexifa`rmakos keeping off poison; 'alexein to keep off + fa`rmakon drug, poison: cf. F. alexipharmaque. ] (Med.) Of or relating to an alexipharmic or alexipharmac; warding off poison; antidotal; prophylactic. [ obsolescent ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. (Med.) An antidote against poison; a counterpoison. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. [ Gr. 'ale`xein to keep off + pyreto`s burning heat, fever, py^r fire. ] (Med.) Serving to drive off fever; antipyretic; antifebrile. [ archaic ] -- n. An antipyretic drug; a febrifuge. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'alexhth`rios fit to keep off or help, fr. 'alexhth`r one who keeps off, helper; 'ale`xein to keep off: cf. F. alexitère. ] (Med.) Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'alexhth`rion a remedy, an amulet: cf. F. alexitère, LL. alexiterium. ] (Med.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. amplexus, p. p. of amplecti to encircle, to embrace + caulis stem: cf. F. amplexicaule. ] (Bot.) Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself. T. G. Thomas. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. complexion, fr. L. complexio. See Complex, a. ] 1. The state of being complex; complexity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Though the terms of propositions may be complex, yet . . . it is properly called a simple syllogism, since the complexion does not belong to the syllogistic form of it. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A combination; a complex. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This paragraph is . . . a complexion of sophisms. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If his complexion incline him to melancholy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tall was her stature, her complexion dark. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Between the pale complexion of true love,
And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion. [ 1913 Webster ]

A moral rather than a complexional timidity. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Constitutionally. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best-colored clay. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Complexities [ Cf. F. complexité. ] 1. The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is complex; intricacy; complication. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many-corridored complexities
Of Arthur's palace. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Deflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To change the complexion or hue of. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. Any of various reading disorders caused by a damaged or congenitally faulty structure within the central nervous system, and causing an impairment of the ability to interpret spatial relationships or to integrate auditory and visual information. A common example is when letter sequences are interpreted as inverted in order, as in bat/tab. RHUD [ PJC ]

adj. 1. Of or pertaining to dyslexia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. same as dyslectic.
Syn. -- dyslectic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., reproof, fr. Gr. &unr_; , fr. &unr_; to strike at, reprove; 'epi` + &unr_; to strike. ] (Rhet.) A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. flexibilitas: cf. F. flexibilite. ] The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible. ] 1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the splitting wind
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. [ 1913 Webster ]

Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic, ; as, a flexible language. [ 1913 Webster ]

This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. Rogers.

Syn. -- Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile; obsequious; inconstant; wavering.

-- Flex"i*ble*ness, n. -- Flex"i*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. flexus bent + E. costate. ] (Anat.) Having bent or curved ribs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. flexilis. ] Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. flexio: cf. F. flexion. ] 1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bending; a part bent; a fold. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

Express the syntactical relations by flexion. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Physiol.) The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ short for flexible time. ] A system of scheduling working hours in places of employment, which allows employees to arrive at and leave work at times of their own choice, providing that they work the required number of hours and usually requiring that they be present during certain hours, called core time. Certain workers prefer to arrive early and leave early, and others prefer to arrive late and leave late. Flex time is a way to accommodate such preferences, presumably improving employee morale, and also helps reduce traffic congestion during commmuting times. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. génuflexion, fr. LL. genuflexio, fr. L. genu knee + flexio a bending, fr. flectere, flexum, to bend. See Knee, Flexible. ] The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship or reverence. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. implexio. ] Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. inflexibilité. ] The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. [ 1913 Webster ]

The purity and inflexibility of their faith. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inflexiblis: cf. F. inflexible. See In- not, and Flexible. ] 1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Inflexibleas steel.” Miltom. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of upright and inflexible temper . . . can overcome all private fear. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nature of things is inflexible. I. Watts.

Syn. -- -- Unbending; unyielding; rigid; inexorable; pertinacious; obstinate; stubborn; unrelenting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an inflexible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Inflective. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Inflexive endings.” W. E. Jelf. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inflexible. [ R. ] “Foes inflexive.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a lexicon, to lexicography, or words; according or conforming to a lexicon. -- Lex"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. t. 1. To make into a word, coin into a word; as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. To increase the importance of, or emphasis on, words as opposed to other parts of a theory or program; -- said of grammatical theories and computer programs, especially programs for understanding language; as, lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. lexikogra`fos; lexiko`n dictionary + gra`fein to write: cf. F. lexicographe. See Lexicon. ] The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach; and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. lexicographique. ] Of or pertaining to, or according to, lexicography. -- Lex`i*co*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. A lexicographer. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. lexicographie. ] The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries; as, with so many words lexicography can be interesting in parts but at length is rather tedious labor. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. One versed in lexicology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. lexiko`n lexicon + -logy: cf. F. lexicologie. ] The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. lexiko`n (sc. bibli`on), neut. of lexiko`s of or belonging to words, fr. le`xis a speaking, speech, a way of speaking, a single word or phrase, fr. le`gein to say, to speak. See Legend. ] A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of a lexicon. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. lexigraphique. ] Of or pertaining to lexigraphy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. le`xis word + -graphy: cf. F. lexigraphie. ] The art or practice of defining words; definition of words. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. lexifa`nis a phrase monger; le`xis speech + fai`nein to show. ] Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The use of pretentious words, language, or style. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Alexipharmic. [ 1913 Webster ]