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Same as Paralyze.

n, with or without that of sensation, in any part of the body; palsy. See Hemiplegia, and Paraplegia. Also used figuratively. "Utter paralysis of memory." G. Eliot. Mischievous practices arising out of the paralysis of the powers of ownership. Duke of Argyll (1887).

Of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis.

See Paralytic.

The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.

To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C2H4N4); -- called also dicyandiamide.

A paramagnetic substance. Faraday. -- Par`a*mag*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

Magnetism, as opposed to diamagnetism. Faraday.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic acid, and now called fumaric acid. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid metameric with malic acid.

Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.

A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino. Beck (Draper's Dict.)

nt; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural. [Obs.] Lords in paraments on their coursers. Chaucer. Chamber of paraments, presence chamber of a monarch.

Ornament; decoration. Beau. & Fl.

One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.

ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.

Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the vicinity of the uterus.

A collector or writer of proverbs. [R.]

The fluid portion of the protoplasm of a cell.