Definition of lex

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Lex (n.) Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants..

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Complex :: Complex (n.) Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.
Alexiterical :: Alexiterical (a.) Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.
Portland Vase :: Portland vase () A celebrated cinerary urn or vase found in the tomb of the Emperor Alexander Severus. It is owned by the Duke of Portland, and kept in the British Museum..
Confounded :: Confounded (a.) Confused; perplexed.
Flexanimous :: Flexanimous (a.) Having power to change the mind.
Impliable :: Impliable (a.) Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding.
Lexiphanicism :: Lexiphanicism (n.) The use of pretentious words, language, or style..
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart..
Excito-secretory :: Excito-secretory (a.) Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action..
Reflected :: Reflected (a.) Bent backward or outward; reflexed.
Scrape :: Scrape (n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty..
Apoplectoid :: Apoplectoid (a.) Resembling apoplexy.
Syringed :: Syringe (n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc..
Extension :: Extension (v. t.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion..
Infiltrate :: Infiltrate (v. t.) To penetrate gradually; -- sometimes used reflexively.
Terebilenic :: Terebilenic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid, C7H8O4, obtained as a white crystalline substance by a modified oxidation of terebic acid..
Theurgy :: Theurgy (n.) A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites..
Properispomenon :: Properispomenon (n.) A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.
Discomplexion :: Discomplexion (v. t.) To change the complexion or hue of.
Antipharmic :: Antipharmic (a.) Antidotal; alexipharmic.
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