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ng and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them. -- Mercantile marine,…

A salt of metantimonic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3).

Conjuration. [R.] With all the necromantics of their art. Young.

Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.

An adherent of Neo-Kantianism.

The philosophy of modern thinkers who follow Kant in his general theory of knowledge, esp. of a group of German philosophers including F. A. Lange, H. Cohen, Paul Natorp, and others.

A beautiful black marble found in fragments among Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.

The system or the principles of the obscurants. C. Kingsley.

Same as Obscurant. Ed. Rev.

One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.

Of or pertaining to onomancy. [R.]

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C6H4N4O5) obtained by the reduction of parabanic acid; -- called also leucoturic acid.

A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (

With palpitation or rapid breathing. Shak.

A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.

A pantisocratist.

Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy. Macaulay.

a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.