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Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds. Chromous acid, a bluish gray powder, CrO.OH, of weak acid properties and regard as an acid.

Of or pertaining to a chronograph.

Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane. Chrysophanic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance extracted from rhubarb, yellow dock, sienna, chrysarobin, etc., and shown to be a derivative of an anthracene. It is used in the treatment of skin diseases; -- called also rhein, rheic acid, rhubarbarin…

Designating, or pertaining to, gods or spirits of the underworld; esp., relating to the underworld gods of the Greeks, whose worship is widely considered as more primitive in form than that of the Olympian gods. The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic n…

Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions. [The] chthonic character of the wife of Zeus. Max Müller.

Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.

Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.

Of or pertaining to chyme.

Pertaining to food; edible. Johnson.

Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.

Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the Cimbri. -- n.

Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany. -- n.

Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.

Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.

Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes. Cinerary urns, vessels used by the ancients to preserve the ashes of the dead when burned.

Of or pertaining to the Cingalese. [Written also Singhalese.]

Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.