Search the Dictionary

The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.

Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also cænozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.

g and changing our friends. L'Estrange. To chop logic, to dispute with an affected use of logical terms; to argue sophistically.

Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.

repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.

Circular; illogical. [Obs. & .] "Cross and circulary speeches." Hooker.

be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent. They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere. Burke.

Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas. Locke.

d every tale condemns me for a villain. Shak. As science means knowledge, conscience etymologically means self- knowledge . . . But the English word implies a moral standard of action in the mind as well as a consciousness of our own actions. . . . Conscience is the reason, employed about questions of right and wrong,…

That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary. [R.] Milton.

A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence. Sir M. Hale.

Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding. The actions of a man consecutive to volition. Locke.

Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequenment. All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority. Locke. These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. Sir M. Hale.…

With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically. The faculty of writing consequentially. Addison.

By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.

Consistent; logical. [Obs.] Shak.

ame subject. It develops itself in three specific forms which have been called the "Three Logical Axioms." First. "A is A." Second, "A is not Not-A" Third, "Everything is either A or Not-A."

The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.

the same time its prophets, the creators of its divinities, and the revealers of its theological beliefs. Caird.