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Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction. The . . . petrifactive mutations of hard bodies. Sir T. Browne.

See Petrifaction.

To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logica…

The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill.

Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners. "Pleasing harmony." Shak. "Pleasing features." Macaulay. -- Pleas"ing*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ing*ness, n.

Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry. Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable. Bacon. O, sir, you are very pleasurable. B. Jonson. -- Pleas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pleas"ur*a*bly, adv.

acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.

One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.

To take without opposition or expressed dissatisfaction; to endure; as, to put up with bad fare.

Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.

Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. Wiseman.

Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as, a putrescent smell.

Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances.

A nontoxic diamine, C4H12N2, formed in the putrefaction of the flesh of mammals and some other animals.

ay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

Putrefaction.

That which is undergoing putrefaction; the products of putrefaction.

Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.

See Rarefaction. [R.] Am. Chem. Journal.