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Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.

Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

Intolerance. Bailey.

Not enduring; not able to endure. The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses. Arbuthnot.

In an intolerant manner.

Not tolerated.

Intolerant. [R.]

Intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.

The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.

Peristaltic action, especially of the intestines.

The interval between the diastole and systole of the heart. It is perceptible only in the dying.

Same as Phylactolæma.

on, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40.

One who uses a pistol. [R.] Carlyle.

A small pistol. Donne. Beau. & Fl.

Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer. Ptolemaic system (Astron.), the system maintained by Ptolemy, who supposed the earth to be fixed in the center of the universe, with the sun and stars revolving around it. This theory was received for ages, until superseded by the Copernican system.…

One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.

A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.

A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.

A long, loose garment reaching to the feet. Spenser. But when mild morn, in saffron stole, First issues from her eastern goal. T. Warton.