A Posteriori :: A posteriori () Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning..

A Posteriori :: A posteriori () Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical.

Accost :: Accost (v. t.) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of..

Accost :: Accost (v. t.) To approach; to make up to.

Accost :: Accost (v. t.) To speak to first; to address; to greet.

Accost :: Accost (v. i.) To adjoin; to lie alongside.

Accost :: Accost (n.) Address; greeting.

Accostable :: Accostable (a.) Approachable; affable.

Accosted :: Accosted (imp. & p. p.) of Accos.

Accosted :: Accosted (a.) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side..

Accosting :: Accosting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accos.

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto..

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) Alt. of Acrostica.

Acrostical :: Acrostical (n.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics..

Acrostically :: Acrostically (adv.) After the manner of an acrostic.

Actinost :: Actinost (n.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.

Actinostome :: Actinostome (n.) The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.

Aerostat :: Aerostat (n.) A balloon.

Aerostat :: Aerostat (n.) A balloonist; an aeronaut.

Aerostatic :: Aerostatic (a.) Alt. of Aerostatica.

Aerostatical :: Aerostatical (a.) Of or pertaining to aerostatics; pneumatic.

Aerostatical :: Aerostatical (a.) Aeronautic; as, an aerostatic voyage..

Aerostatics :: Aerostatics (n.) The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aeronautics..

Aerostation :: Aerostation (n.) Aerial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

Aerostation :: Aerostation (n.) The science of weighing air; aerostatics.

Aftermost :: Aftermost (a. superl.) Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.

Aftermost :: Aftermost (a. superl.) Nearest the stern; most aft.

Aftmost :: Aftmost (a.) Nearest the stern.

Agnostic :: Agnostic (a.) Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.

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