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ly, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.

The relation of light to the movements of plants and their organs; the study of the phenomena of curvatures induced by the stimulus of light. --Pho`to*dy*nam"ic (#), Pho`to*dy*nam"ic*al (#), a.

The doctrine or science of light, explaining its nature and phenomena; optics.

natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws. "Physical philosophy." Pope.

The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion. Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science. Huxley.

A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.

The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

A wing, literal or figurative. Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome. Pope.

The science of spiritual being or phenomena of any description.

or example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.

re words; having names consisting of two or more words; as, a polynomial name; polynomial nomenclature.

hich deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, exper…

Of or pertaining to a prænomen. [Obs.] M. A. Lower.

s around a point. Rankine. -- Pressure gauge, a gauge for indicating fluid pressure; a manometer.

icipation in sequence or order. "The law of prevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal sequence." Ward.

Any starlike meteor or phenomenon. [R.]

A description of the phenomena of mind.

sciousness; a treatise on the human soul. Psychology, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self. Sir W. Hamilton.

uring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena. -- Psy`cho*met"ric, a.

Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer. Ptolemaic system (Astron.), the system maintained by Ptolemy, who supposed the earth to be fixed in the center of the universe, with the sun and stars revolving around it. This theory was received for ages, until superseded by the Copernican system.…