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Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.

Prosodical.

Prosodically.

Prosodical.

A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year.

is alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc. [Written also chinine.]

To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify. Ranking all things under general and special heads. I. Watts. Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers. Broome. Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft. Dr. H. Mor…

udent. -- Reading room, a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort.

d or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits.

In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time.

A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent…

A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.

oint again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revol…

An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current. Wheatstone.

Prodicing roots.

Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent. Moore (Encyc. )

Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet (Astron.), a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function (Math.), a function whose values recur at fixed intervals as the variable uniformly incre…

To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.

be reflected, or polarized, or deflected by a magnetic field. They are regarded as nonperiodic, transverse pulses in the ether. They are used in examining opaque objects, as for locating fractures or bullets in the human body.

a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.