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A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used.

A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc. B. Jonson.

A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. [Obs.]

Emmenagogue.

Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.

interprets mysteries, especially of a religious kind.

The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.

The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.

Of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word. Paragogic letters, in the Semitic languages, letters which are added to the ordinary forms of words, to express additional emphasis, or some change in the sense.

Pedagogue.

See Pedagogics.

Of or pertaining to a pedagogue; suited to, or characteristic of, a pedagogue.

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

The system, occupation, character, or manner of pedagogues. Milton. Avocation of pedantry and pedagogism. De Foe.

To play the pedagogue toward. [Obs.] Prior.

Pedagogics; pedagogism. South.

A division of fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid fishes.

A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

Causing inflammation.

Attractive; persuasive. J. Morley.