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gnable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to Ant: maximum.

The smaller number; -- opposed to Ant: majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.

Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy. Orrery.

Of or pertaining to mitosis; karyokinetic; as, mitotic cell division; -- opposed to amitotic. --Mi*tot"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved.

ity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.

y, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter. Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances. Locke.…

A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. Pope.

A follower of the opinions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit (in respect to grace); an opposer of the Jansenists.

l, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to Ant: dioecious.

Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy.

of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism. Dana. Haeckel.

One who maintains that the human races are all of one species; -- opposed to polygenist.

One who believes in monometallism as opposed to bimetallism, etc.

ous stages of development; of the same or of an essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to dimorphic, trimorphic, and polymorphic.

Single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophonic composition; -- opposed to Ant: polyphonic.

ining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.

Having but one set of teeth; -- opposed to diphyodont.

A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to sympodium.

or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.