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Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ly, adv. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ness, n.

Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology. Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied with mind. Sir W. Hamilton. Whether, after all, A larger metaphysics might not help Our physics. Mrs. Browning.…

Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.

cipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.

A size of type between nonpareil and minion; -- used in ornamental borders, etc.

Hence: Agency; instrumentality. The ordinary ministry of second causes. Atterbury. The wicked ministry of arms. Dryden.

Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental. -- Miss"ish*ness, n.

Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.

nt a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works. Monogram.

o, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.

Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.

Silly; weakly sentimental. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.

by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.

Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity. Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God. South.

y of worth. Byron. Mountain anthelope (Zoöl.), the goral. -- Mountain ash (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the Pyrus (Sorbus) Americana, producing beautiful bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European species is the P. aucuparia, or rowan tree. -- Mount…

To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem. [Colloq. U.S.]

An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils. [R.] See Foil.

Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental. She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. G. Eliot.

Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay.

Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.