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Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.

Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only. Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to obige your friends. Swift.

Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.

A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size.

Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.

or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.

Hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a migratory life. Migratory locust (Zoöl.) See Locust. -- Migratory thrush (Zoöl.), the American robin. See Robin.

The spirit and traditions of military life. H. Spencer.

o mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry. To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death. Shak. Mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shak.

ore or less exact. Thou seest thy wretched brother die, Who was the model of thy father's life. Shak.

Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.

The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.

Of or pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life. -- Mon`as*te"ri*al*ly, adv.

Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse. "A life monastic." Denham.

The monastic life, system, or condition. Milman.

igion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." Chaucer. Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regular…

The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach. Miters, and wretched dead mediæval monkeries. Carlyle.

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

was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. De Quincey.

iciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful. So bad a death argues a monstrous life. Shak.