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Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.

skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms. Mantell. -- Elephantine tortoise (Zoöl.), a huge land tortoise;…

Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.

A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter. Gibbs.

The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. Dunglison.

Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.

Epileptic.

Resembling epilepsy.

Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.

Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions.

A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds. Agassiz.

A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body. -- Hys`ter*o*ep`i*lep"tic, a.

mulcent, acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture, used as a vehicle. Milton. Honey in woods, juleps in brooks. H. Vaughan.

A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. Wharton.

A person affected with kleptomania.

See Malpractice.

The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

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

Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.