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Of or pertaining to zoölogy, or the science of animals.

In a zoölogical manner; according to the principles of zoölogy.

Of or pertaining to zoöphytology; as, zoöphytological observations.

See Zymic, Zymological, etc.

Of or pertaining to zymology.

tate, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise…

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

d fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9

That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were full of absurdities. Johnson.

y; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. Reid. The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides. Lardner.

in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

Pertaining to aërography; aërological.

A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

of the age." Prescott. Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness. Milton. Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapon…

subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate. A logical agitation of the matter. L'Estrange. The project now in agitation. Swift.

(Geol.) Pertaining to or designating a period or era recognized by the United States Geological Survey and some other authorities, between the Archæan and the Paleozoic, from both of which it is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are…

Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable). 2 Chron. ii. 8.

principles of the world with those of the gospel. C. J. Smith. The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics. Mansel.

ard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.