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A photographer.

Same as Phthisis.

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing.

A treatise on phthisis. Dunglison.

Pulmonary consumption.

formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption. Fibroid phthisis. See under Fibroid.

e property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism.

The property possessed by some substances of crystallizing in closely similar forms while unlike in chemical composition.

One who advocates polyarchy; -- opposed to monarchist. Cudworth.

One versed in various learning. [R.]

One versed in many sciences; a person of various learning.

Same as Pleomorphism.

Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.

Projection of the jaws. -- Prog"na*thy, n.

A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns.

A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute. J. P. Mahaffy.

The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.

The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations. Fleming.

sleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body. -- Psy`cho*pan"ny*chism, n.