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A beautiful black marble found in fragments among Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.

Of or pertaining to onomancy. [R.]

a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.

In a pedantic manner.

Pedantically. [R.]

A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.

Protestant. [Obs.]

Falsely romantic. The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage. De Quincey.

Of or pertaining to pyromancy.

ternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic is a binary cubic.

nvolving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such a persuasion South. Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men…

Romantic.

In a romantic manner.

A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo- classicism in poetry, and to have been thus u…

One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.

Romantically. [R.] Strype.

The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.

Relating to spodomancy, or divination by means of ashes. C. Kingsley.

ttering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey.

Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean.