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Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.

See Caterer. [Obs.]

See Cates. [Obs.]

A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.

The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.

To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.

The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.

Adjudicating.

One who adjudicates.

Adjudication.

Additional signification. [R.] Tooke.

One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

Office or duty of an advocate.

The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. [Archaic] The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.]

The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air.

A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.