Aestivation :: Aestivation (n.) The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation..

Aestivation :: Aestivation (n.) The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration..

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

Agnostic :: Agnostic (n.) One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc..

Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies..

Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..

Agonistic :: Agonistic (a.) Alt. of Agonistica.

Agonistical :: Agonistical (a.) Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural..

Agonistically :: Agonistically (adv.) In an agonistic manner.

Agonistics :: Agonistics (n.) The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games..

Agrestic :: Agrestic (a.) Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth..

Agrestical :: Agrestical (a.) Agrestic.

Agrostis :: Agrostis (n.) A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses..

Albinistic :: Albinistic (a.) Affected with albinism.

Alchemistic :: Alchemistic (a.) Alt. of Alchemistica.

Alchemistical :: Alchemistical (a.) Relating to or practicing alchemy.

Alchymistic :: Alchymistic (n.) Alt. of Alchym.

Altruistic :: Altruistic (a.) Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to egoistic or selfish.

Ambustion :: Ambustion (n.) A burn or scald.

Amethystine :: Amethystine (a.) Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet..

Amethystine :: Amethystine (a.) Composed of, or containing, amethyst..

Amnestic :: Amnestic (a.) Causing loss of memory.

Amnestied :: Amnestied (imp. p. p.) of Amnest.

Amphiblastic :: Amphiblastic (a.) Segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.

Anabaptistic :: Anabaptistic (a.) Alt. of Anabaptistica.

Anabaptistical :: Anabaptistical (a.) Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines..

Anachronistic :: Anachronistic (a.) Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.

Anaclastic :: Anaclastic (a.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves..

Anaclastic :: Anaclastic (a.) Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass..

Anaclastics :: Anaclastics (n.) That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics.

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