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A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.

s taken, the other must be left. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. Burke.

An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused. Johnson. R. Browning.

Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute. [Obs.] Ash.

ecoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

In an arbitrary manner; by will only; despotically; absolutely.

Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government. Dryden. Arbitrary constant, Arbitrary function (Math.), a quantity of function that is introduced into the solution of a problem, and to which any value or form may at will be given, so that the solu…

The absolute dominion of presbytery. Milton.

mpletely incased in armor, sometimes described as armed cap-à-pie. Cussans. -- Armed en flute. (Naut.) See under Flute. -- Armed magnet, a magnet provided with an armature. -- Armed neutrality. See under Neutrality.

A medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.

divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.

Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper. [R.] Ash.

Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.

An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).

Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to an autocrator; absolute. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of Russia.

ic capital (Arch.), a line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute. -- Neutral axis (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression, exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder. -- Optic axis of a crystal, the direction in which…

An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.