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Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.

A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.

Sumptuous in cheer. [Obs.] Bailey.

To disjoint.

A poem consisting of ten lines.

bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated." Arbuthnot.

The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.

Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.

a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely. When Christ spake it deictically. Hammond.

Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book. The deistical or antichristian scheme. I. Watts.

After the manner of deists.

State of being deistical.

Deltaic.

Relating to a political party so called.

Democratic. The democratical was democratically received. Algernon Sidney.

In a democratic manner.

Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. Demotic alphabet or character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Encho…

The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing.

Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.