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or inhabiting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere. The hyperborean or frozen sea. C. Butler (1633).

ve proportion of carbonic acid; -- said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates. [Written also hypercarburetted.]

Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.

See Perchloric.

The condition of having an unusual intensity of color.

One who is critical beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor. "Hypercritics in English poetry." Dryden.

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

In a hypercritical manner.

To criticise with unjust severity; to criticise captiously.

Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.

Excessive dicrotic; as, a hyperdicrotic pulse.

A hyperdicrotic condition.

Hyperdicrotic.

Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia. Addis & Arnold.

Hyperdulia. [Obs.]

Same as Hyperæsthesia.

A genus of plants, generally with dotted leaves and yellow flowers; -- called also St. John's-wort.

A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.

ed with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty. So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr. Shak.

Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm.