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In an achromatic manner.

Of or pertaining to acoustics.

In relation to sound or to hearing. Tyndall.

Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.

Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

After the manner of an acrostic.

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.

Pertaining to adenology.

Pertaining to aërography; aërological.

Of or pertaining to aërology.

Of or pert. to aëromechanics.

Pertaining to aëronautics, or aërial sailing.

Of or pertaining to aërostatics; pneumatic.

Of or Pertaining to æsthetics; versed in æsthetics; as, æsthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. -- Æs*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to ætiology; assigning a cause. -- Æ`ti*o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

In an agamic manner.

Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

In an agonistic manner.