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In a catechetical manner; by question and answer.

The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.

Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism. Dr. H. More.

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.

A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. Dunglison.

A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat. Massinger.

al or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark. Caustic curve (Optics), a curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane. -- Caustic lime. See under Lime. -- Caustic potash, Caustic soda (Chem.), the…

In a caustic manner.

The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.

The quality of being caustic; causticity.

Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. [Written also Keltic.]

A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language. Warton.

To render Celtic; to assimilate to the Celts.

Of or pertaining to a cenobite.

Hundred-headed.

A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. Marshall Hall.