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The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-Fleming.

One who believes in hylopathism.

fly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceæ, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.

An extinct genus of Brachiopoda, abundant in the Paleozoic rocks.

The quality or state of being orthognathous. Huxley.

One who practices osteopathy; an osteopath.

A lover of the truth. [Obs.] Brathwait.

Same as Phthisis.

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing.

A treatise on phthisis. Dunglison.

Pulmonary consumption.

s formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption. Fibroid phthisis. See under Fibroid.

One versed in many sciences; a person of various learning.

Projection of the jaws. -- Prog"na*thy, n.

the condition of having a schizognathous palate.

A person in a state of somniapathy.

One who sympathizes; a sympathizer. [R.] Coleridge.

nded from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent the…

izations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.