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Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism.

Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.

Relating to a dialogue; dialogistical. Burton.

Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses. Dunglison.

Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.

Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar. The influence of acids and alkalies on the diastatic action of saliva. Lauder Brunton.

Of or relating to the Didelphia. -- n.

Day of wrath; -- the name and beginning of a famous mediæval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment.

Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.

Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate. For whom he produced differential favors. Motley.

Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek . Andrews.

The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al

The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. Mrs. Browning. At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.

Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era. Dionysian period, a period of 532 years, depending on the cycle of the sun, or 28 years, and the cycle of the moon, or 19 years; -- sometimes called the Greek paschal cycle, or Victorian period.

Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.

Relating to diphtheria; diphtheritic.

Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong. -- Diph*thon"gal*ly, adv.

Pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body.

of form; as, he said that he could not come. They are often called respectively by their Latin names, oratio directa, and oratio obliqua. -- Direct evidence (Law), evidence which is positive or not inferential; -- opposed to circumstantial, or indirect, evidence. -- This distinction, however, is merely formal, since…

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o. I do commit his youth To your direction. Shak. All nature is but art, unknown to thee;direction, which thou canst not see. Pope.