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Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical.

, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

r hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.

A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

To cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.

A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

e also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take thei…

The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. -- Ac`id*i*met"ric*al, a.

An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum. Eng. Cyc.

Having a cleavage parallel with the base.

(Anat.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.

itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.

An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.