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Quality of being articulate.

The state of being jointed; connection of parts. [R.] That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to articulation. Bush.

One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.

A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.

f an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or skill. -- Ar*tis"tic*al*ly, adv.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.

Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe. The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline. Sir W. Scott.

The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.

Of, pertaining to, or affected by, ascites; dropsical.

An aseptic substance.

Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants. -- n.

Something peculiar to Asia or the Asiatics.

Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous. "Asphaltic pool." "Asphaltic slime." Milton.

Pertaining to asphyxia.

or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction. Astatic pair (Magnetism), a pair of magnetic needles so mounted as to be nearly or quite astatic, as in some galvanometers.…

In an astatic manner.

The state of being astatic.

A person affected with asthma.