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Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram. -- Di`a*gram*mat"ic*ly, adv.

Same as Dialectics. Plato placed his dialectic above all sciences. Liddell & Scott.

Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.

In a dialectical manner.

One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.

That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.

Pertaining to a dialogue; having the form or nature of a dialogue. -- Di*al`o*gis"tic*al*ly, adv.

Having the quality of unloosing or separating. Clarke. Dialytic telescope, an achromatic telescope in which the colored dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the…

sm; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic. Diamagnetic attraction. See under Attraction.

In the manner of, or according to, diamagnetism.

Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products. I would employ . . . dianoetic to denote the operation of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton.

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

Having the power to increase perspiration.

Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.

Producing diarrhea, or a purging.

ing the conversion of starch into sugar. The influence of acids and alkalies on the diastatic action of saliva. Lauder Brunton.

ertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.

Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth. [Obs.]

Capable of subdividing spontaneously.

Dichroic.