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See Metaphysics.

Of or pertaining to metaphysics.

In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South.

One who is versed in metaphysics.

Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology. Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied with mind. Sir W. Hamilton. Whether, after all, A larger metaphysics might not help Our physics. Mrs. Browning.…

Change of form; transformation.

A change in the letters or syllables of a word.

A word having more than one form of the root.

The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.

Of or pertaining to the metapodialia, or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.

One of the bones of either the metacarpus or metatarsus.

Same as Metapode.

A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebræ; a mammillary process.

The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes. -- Me*tap`ter*yg"i*al, a.

A salt of metasilicic acid.

Designating an acid derived from silicic acid by the removal of water; of or pertaining to such an acid.

chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization. -- Met`a*so*mat"ic, a.

One of the component segments of the body of an animal.

A salt of metastannic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a compound of tin (metastannic acid), obtained, as an isomeric modification of stannic acid, in the form of a white amorphous substance.