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Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.

Of or pertaining to a microbe.

Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.

The study of minute organisms, or microbes, as the bacteria. -- Mi`cro*bi`o*log"ic*al (#), a. -- Mi`cro*bi*ol"o*gist (#), n.

nnin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.

The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy. Virchow.

Of or pertaining to necrobiosis; as, a necrobiotic metamorphosis.

s manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.

See Nitrobenzene.

Capable of living without atmospheric oxygen; anaërobiotic.

Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison.

Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.

Opprobrium. [Obs.] Johnson.

A genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two long plumose tentacles.

Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.

Same as Pleurobranch.

The doctrine of the probabiliorists.

One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right.

The doctrine of the probabilists.

One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.