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The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; relevancy; suitableness. The fitness and pertinency of the apostle's discourse. Bentley.

appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence.

The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.

Same as Phalangist.

A white, crystalline compound, C10H13O2N, used in medicine principally as an antipyretic.

A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.

A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.

A form of dentine which shows sinuous lines of structure in a transverse section of the tooth.

Pertaining to the Polycystina. -- n.

See Pontine.

or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples. [Written also Pomptine.]

Porcupine. [Obs.] Shak.

Situated behind the palate, or behind the palatine bones.

To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate. Young.

in a disparaging sense. A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness. Jeffrey.

Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.

To procrastinate. [Obs.]

The bee moth, or wax moth (Galleria).

Of or pertaining to the pterygoid processes and the palatine bones.

A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyrites.