Search the Dictionary

Ornamented in the style of arabesques.

Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness. A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

ure; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.

A solution of silver phosphate in an aqueous solution of ethylene diamine, used as an antiseptic astringent and as a disinfectant.

d as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness. Rayleigh and Ramsay.

Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.

A false aril; an aril originating from the micropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.

In the smooth and melodious style of an air; ariose.

hing of the arrowy Rhone. Byron. With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities. Carlyle.

an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.

as, articulate speech, sounds, words. Total changes of party and articulate opinion. Carlyle.

To make rough or uneven. The asperated part of its surface. Boyle.

hness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

Rough; uneven. Boyle.

An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. [Obs.] Wat Tyler [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. Fuller.

. . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle.

Craftiness; astuteness. [R.] Carlyle.

nant, delicate wit, peculiar to the Athenians. -- Attic story. See Attic, n. -- Attic style, a style pure and elegant.

The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression.

To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians.