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A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon.…

Of or pertaining to teratology; as, teratological changes.

That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals.

A description, or the doctrine, of death. Dunglison.

Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things. [R.] The thaumatolatry by which our theology has been debased for more than a century. Hare.

A colorless oily liquid, C4H3S.CH3, analogous to, and resembling, toluene; -- called also methyl thiophene.

The art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography.

Not told; not related; not revealed; as, untold secrets.

Intolerable. [Obs.]

nd submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest. [Obs.] Shak.

Like a wittol; cuckoldly. [Obs.] Shak.

Of or pertaining to zoöphytology; as, zoöphytological observations.

The natural history zoöphytes.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak.

hing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16. I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. Milton.

To extol; to laud. [Obs.] Greatly advancing his gay chivalry. Spenser.

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.…

That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson.

act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.