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Pertaining to, or suited for, a hermit. Coventry.

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

social; affable; conversable; companionable. [R.] His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury.

Of or relating to hydrostatics; pertaining to, or in accordance with, the principles of the equilibrium of fluids. The first discovery made in hydrostatics since the time of Archimedes is due to Stevinus. Hallam. Hydrostatic balance, a balance for weighing substances in water, for the purpose of ascertaining their spec…

According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles. Bentley.

Hydrotic.

Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious. "Hypercritical readers." Swift.

In a hypercritical manner.

Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical. [Obs.] Hyperthetical or superlative . . . expression. Chapman.

Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action. Hypocritical professions of friendship and of pacific intentions were not spared. Macaulay. -- Hyp`o*crit"ic*al*ly, adv.

stitutive, or elementary. The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. Boyle.

In a hypostatic manner.

reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the various phenomena of the existence of which our experience informs us. Sir W. Hamilton. Hypothetical baptism (Ch. of Eng.), baptism administered to persons in respect to whom it is doubtful whe…

Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine.

The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist. Reid.

In an identical manner; with respect to identity. "Identically the same." Bp. Warburton. "Identically different." Ross.

The quality or state of being identical; sameness.

Peculiar in constitution or temperament; idiosyncratic.

Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase. -- Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's peculiar and individual character.