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Of or pertaining to abiogenesis. Ab`i*o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

Same as Abiogenesis.

f glowing excitement or ardent desire. The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. Carlyle.

See Catharsis, below.

consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence,…

Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to 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 vi…

The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. "The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number." Locke.

A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.

One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. -- Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being prese…

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. Kirwan.

The crisis or height of a disease.

One who attends; an assistant. "With such chiefs, and with James and John as acolytes." Motley.

A medicine or agent to assist hearing.

Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.

A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.

Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle (Geom.), an angle less than a right angle.

Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.