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A polemic. [R.]

A political writer. [R.]

were much more desirous to get rid of Episcopacy than to prove themselves consummate publicists and logicians. Macaulay.

One two danced the pyrrhic.

A romancer. [R.]

One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.

One skilled in, or tenaciously adhering to, the rubric or rubrics.

One who commits a solecism. Blackwall.

Solecistical.

Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect. "He thought it made the language solecistical and absurd." Blackwall.

In a solecistic manner.

One skilled to technics or in one or more of the practical arts.

A vat or cistern. See 1st Back.

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment…

Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel, in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. -- n.

A biblical scholar; a biblicist. I. Taylor.

Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] Johnson.

A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.

A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptace of filth. [Written also sesspool.]