{ } a. Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , 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 ]

a. [ LL. dominicalis, for L. dominicus belonging to a master or lord (dominica dies the Lord's day), fr. dominus master or lord: cf. F. dominical. See Dame. ] 1. Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some words altered in the dominical Gospels. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dominical altar (Eccl.), the high altar. --
Dominical letter, the letter which, in almanacs, denotes Sunday, or the Lord's day (dies Domini). The first seven letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose, the same letter standing for Sunday during a whole year (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February). After twenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e. g., if the dominical letter of a common year be G, F will be the dominical letter for the next year. Called also Sunday letter. Cf. Solar cycle, under Cycle, n. [ 1913 Webster ]