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Same as Pantheism. [R.]

Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic id…

Pertaining to the goddess Venus.

The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.

Having a loud and sonorous voice. "Deep-mouthed dogs." Dryden.

See Dinotherium.

Pertaining to, or in the style of, Demosthenes, the Grecian orator.

To deepen. [Obs.]

The horny covering of the end of the bill of birds.

Freely permeable by radiant heat.

The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous. Melloni.

The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat. Nichol.

Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; - - opposed to athermanous.

Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. Melloni.

An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat- conducting power of liquids.

Same as Diathermal.

Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.

Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.

The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first time through the brain a phonetic expression; -- jocosely so called from the analo…

A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.