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In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.

In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily. Sir W. Hamilton.

The state of being affected with psora. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to psora.

Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, patridge, and the like.

Responsory; antiphonal. J. H. Newman.

Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.

Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, the scansorial foot.

Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers. A. Tucker.

The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system,…

Pertaining to a sponsor.

Ridiculing with moderation. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.

Of or pertaining to a barber, or shaving.

ing else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. "The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti." Carlyle.

A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria.

An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.

Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.

One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.