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In the form of an hyperbola.

Having the form, or nearly the form, of an hyperbola.

The use of hyperbole. Jefferson.

One who uses hyperboles.

To state or represent hyperbolically. Fotherby.

A surface of the second order, which is cut by certain planes in hyperbolas; also, the solid, bounded in part by such a surface. Hyperboloid of revolution, an hyperboloid described by an hyperbola revolving about one of its axes. The surface has two separate sheets when the axis of revolution is the transverse axis, bu…

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.