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In a pedantic manner.

Pedantically. [R.]

The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry. [Obs.]

To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions. [R.]

A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.

A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.

Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.

That which is planted; a plantation. Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord. Isa. lxi. 3.

Carelessness; apathy; indifference. [R.] Carlyle.

Protestant. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being protestant, especially against the Roman Catholic Church; the principles or religion of the Protestants.

Falsely romantic. The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage. De Quincey.

A salt of pyroantimonic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of antimony analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.

Of or pertaining to pyromancy.

ternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic is a binary cubic.

Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity. The quantification of the predicate belongs in part to Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to negative propositions. De Quincey.

To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

Relating to quantity. -- Quan"ti*ta*tive*ly, adv. Quantitative analysis (Chem.), analysis which determines the amount or quantity of each ingredient of a substance, by weight or by volume; -- contrasted with qualitative analysis.

Estimable according to quantity; quantitative. Sir K. Digby.