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Passing from one body or state to another.

Of or relating to transpiration.

Of or pertaining to transudation; passing by transudation.

Tutorage. [Obs.] Holinshed.

and fall; pertaining to a propagated alternating motion, similar to that of waves. Undulatory theory, or Wave theory (of light) (Opt.), that theory which regards its various phenomena as due to undulations in an ethereal medium, propagated from the radiant with immense, but measurable, velocities, and producing differ…

Marked by usurpation; usurping. [R.]

Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute. Hawthorne.

Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.

Of or pertaining to a vallation; used for a vallation; as, vallatory reads. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

See Vasodilator.

Vehicular. Carlyle.

Tending, or having power, to raise a blister. -- n.

Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.

mpetition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of Ant: defeat. Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Cor. xv. 54. God on our side, doubt not of victory. Shak. Victory may be honorable to the arms, but shameful to the counsels, of a nation. Bolingbroke.

Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.

Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.

sing fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.

a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Ancient coins as abridgments of history. Addison.

Authoritative; peremptory. [R.] The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. Mrs. Browning.

manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9