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The quality of being comical; something comical.

Conicalness.

A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.

De*vo`cal*i*za"tion, n. If we take a high vowel, such as (i) [= nearly i of bit], and devocalize it, we obtain a hiss which is quite distinct enough to stand for a weak (jh). H. Sweet.

Didactic; preceptive. [R.] Prior.

Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism. G. Eliot.

The name of King Arthur's mythical sword. [Written also Excalibar, Excalibor, Escalibar, and Caliburn.] Tennyson.

The state or quality of being extrinsic.

Fantastically. [Obs.]

The quality of being finical; finicalness.

The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.

To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate. Light is focalized in the eye, sound in the ear. De Quincey.

Want of locality or place. [R.] Cudworth.

The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; hostility; unfriendliness. [R.]

Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.

The quality of

The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman.

The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.

els are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. Glanvill.

Act of localizing, or state of being localized. Cerebral localization (Physiol.), the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.