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One who proposes or supports an hypothesis. [R.]

al; matchless; peerless; transcendent. A merchant of incomparable wealth. Shak. A new hypothesis . . . which hath the incomparable Sir Isaac Newton for a patron. Bp. Warburton. -- In*com"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- In*com"pa*ra*bly, adv. Delights incomparably all those corporeal things. Bp. Wilkins.

The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.

ding, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief. Wharton.

A complex nitrogenous substance, which, by Hermann's hypothesis, is continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles, during their life.

the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

Of, pertaining to, or involving, kinæsthesis.

f uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis. LIthic acid (Old Med. Chem.), uric acid. See Uric acid, under Uric.

terial evidence (Law), evidence which conduces to the proof or disproof of a relevant hypothesis. Wharton.

ronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely.

Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis. [R.]

Of or pertaining to metathesis.

c rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter. The only strict antithesis to prose is meter. Wordsworth.

Of or pertaining to nebulæ; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula. Nebular hypothesis, an hypothesis to explain the process of formation of the stars and planets, presented in various forms by Kant, Herschel, Laplace, and others. As formed by Laplace, it supposed the matter of the solar system to have existed origi…

An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.

Of or pertaining to panspermy; as, the panspermic hypothesis.

Of or pertaining to parathesis.

A kind of parenthesis.

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks. Lowell.

Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales.