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The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax. [R.] Carlyle.

Adding intensity; intensifying.

Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent. W. Phillips.

Pertaining to, or derived from, isatin; as, isatic acid, which is also called trioxindol.

A white crystalline substance obtained by the partial reduction of isatin. [Written also isatyde.]

ic acid, and is one important source of artificial indigo. [Written also, less properly, isatine.]

A genus of herbs, some species of which, especially the Isatis tinctoria, yield a blue dye similar to indigo; woad.

radical, C8H4NO2, regarded as the essential residue of a series of compounds, related to isatin, which easily pass by reduction to indigo blue. -- I*sat`o*gen"ic, a.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine, and isomeric with cinnamic acid.

Having the form of a sword, but very long and narrow.

The act of making soft or supple. [Obs.] Bacon.

Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.

A manganate. [Obs.]

The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis.

Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.

Mesaticephalic.

To misunderstand; to disregard. [Obs.] Milton.

An umbelliferous plant, the common Alexanders of Western Europe (Smyrnium Olusatrum).

To saturate to excess.

Pensive. [Obs.] Shelton.