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elous, that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; that which is wonderful; -- opposed to the probable.

To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against. Eternal might To match with their inventions they presumed So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn. Milton.

To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with. There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. Bacon. I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . . Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be. Shak.

Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter. Material cause. See under Cause. -- Material evidence (Law), evidence which conduces to the proof or disproof of a relevant hypothesis. Wharton.

upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form. Mansel.

antity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to Ant: minimum. Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery. P. Colquhoun. Maximum thermometer, a thermometer that registers the highest degree of temperature…

a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; -- opposed to immediately. God worketh all things amongst us mediately. Sir W. Raleigh. The king grants a manor to A, and A grants a portion of it to B. In this case. B holds his lands immediately of A, but mediately of the king. Bla…

Having the orbital index relatively large; having the orbits narrow transversely; -- opposed to microseme.

A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation.

er, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.

ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.

Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane; mesially; -- opposed to laterad.

Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral. Mesial plane. (Anat.) See Meson.

dividuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.

l translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden.

ass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization. -- Met`a*so*mat"ic, a.

An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.

Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to Ant: megacephalic.

led by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm. Shak.

Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; -- opposed to Ant: megaseme.