v. 1. remove color from.
Syn. -- achromatize, make achromatic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. achromatisme. ] The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; illiterate; 'a priv. + &unr_; letters, fr. &unr_; to write. ] A illiterate person. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'anagrammatismo`s: cf. F. anagrammatisme. ] The act or practice of making anagrams. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. anagrammatiste. ] A maker of anagrams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a cursing; cf. F. anathématisme. ] Anathematization. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, Galen. ] 1. (Med.) The action of apophlegmatics. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An apophlegmatic. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A collector or maker of apothegms. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_;, &unr_;, a prick of a pointed instrument, a spot, fr. &unr_; to prick: cf. F. astigmatisme. ] (Med. & Opt.) A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of vision. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term is applied especially to the defect causing images of lines having a certain direction to be indistinct, or imperfectly seen, while those of lines transverse to the former are distinct, or clearly seen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. Specifically: (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; 9sc. &unr_;) the art of traffic, fr. &unr_; goods, money, fr. &unr_; to use. ] The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a coloring. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Optics) The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) An abnormal coloring of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of chronograms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. klhmati`s brushwood, also (from its long, lithe branches) clematis. fr. klh^ma twig, shoot, fr. kla^n to break off. ] (Bot.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Commatic. ] Conciseness in writing. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being dichromatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Diplomacy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. diplomatiste a student of diplomatics. ] A person employed in, or skilled in, diplomacy; a diplomat. [ 1913 Webster ]

In ability, Avaux had no superior among the numerous able diplomatists whom his country then possessed. Macaulay.

n. The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The self-importance of his demeanor, and the dogmatism of his conversation. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dogmatistes, Gr. &unr_; , fr. &unr_;. ] One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

I expect but little success of all this upon the dogmatist; his opinioned assurance is paramount to argument. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as dramatization.
Syn. -- dramatization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ [ L. ] The actors in a drama or play. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dramatiste. ] The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer or inventor of emblems. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] One who makes, or talks in, enigmas. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. epigrammatista: cf. F. épigrammatiste. ] One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. [ 1913 Webster ]

The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. grammatista schoolmaster, Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; to teach the letters, to be a scribe: cf. F. grammatiste. See Grammatical. ] A petty grammarian. [ R. ] Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. hiérogrammatiste. ] A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics. Greenhill.

n. The condition of having an unusual intensity of color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Legitimist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. lipogrammatiste. ] One who makes a lipogram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who acts in, or writes, melodramas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anagrammatism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. meta- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, body. ] (Geol.) An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization. -- Met`a*so*mat"ic a. [1913 Webster]

n. One who has made a special study of miasma. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in numismatics; a numismatologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. palmatus palmate + secare to cut. ] (Bot.) Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Biol.) A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A punster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Pleochroism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Poly- + Gr. &unr_; form, manner. ] Having, or existing in, many different forms or fashions; multiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method. [ 1913 Webster ]

The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to the pragmatism of the history. A. Murphy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is pragmatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who proposes problems. [ R. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. rheumatismus rheum, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, fr.&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to have or suffer from a flux, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; rheum: cf. F. rheumatisme. See 2d Rheum. ] (Med.) A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inflammatory rheumatism (Med.), acute rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful. --
Rheumatism root. (Bot.) See Twinleaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Rheumatism + -oid. ] (Med.) Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. schématisme (cf. L. schematismos florid speech), fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to form. See Scheme. ] 1. (Astrol.) Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Particular form or disposition of a thing; an exhibition in outline of any systematic arrangement. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One given to forming schemes; a projector; a schemer. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]