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ion of person; individuality. Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground. Coleridge.

The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to Ant: optimism.

Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. "Sends the pestilential vapors." Longfellow.

Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle. Swift.

Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable. "Petulant moods." Macaulay.

The worship of the generative principle in nature, symbolized by the phallus.

The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.

Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory. -- Phe*nom"e*nal*ly, adv.

To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence. Man philosophizes as he lives. He may philosophize well or ill, but philosophize he must. Sir W. Hamilton.

Having the nature or properties of phlegmon; as, phlegmonous pneumonia. Harvey.

Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic. Tyndall.

Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.

combination of three optical lanterns for projecting objects on a screen in the colors of nature. The images of three partial photographs taken through color screens (red, green, and blue, respectively) are superimposed. Each image is given its own primary color, and these colors blend and reproduce the colors of the o…

The doctrine or science of light, explaining its nature and phenomena; optics.

Of the nature of a phrase; consisting of a phrase; as, a phrasal adverb. Earlc.

Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a natio…

In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally. I am not now treating physically of light or colors. Locke.

The philosophy of nature.

The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, light, magnetism, electricity, etc.) that modify the general properties…