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Facial neuralgia.

Same as Scaphopoda.

Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance. [R.] Addison.

A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.…

A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail.

A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.

One who, not being a Russian, favors Russian policy and aggrandizement. -- Rus*soph"ilism, n. [Chiefly newspaper words.]

One who dreads Russia or Russian influence. [Words sometimes found in the newspapers.]

Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.

The large succulent and slightly acid fruit of a small tree (Anona muricata) of the West Indies; also, the tree itself. It is closely allied to the custard apple.

Situated beneath the esophagus. [Written also suboesophageal.] Subesophageal ganglion (Zoöl.), a large special ganglion situated beneath the esophagus of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.

Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the esophagus; as, the supra-esophageal ganglion of Crustacea. [Written also supra- oesophagal, and supra-oesophageal.]

See Supra-esophagal.

A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.

Combining theism and philosophy, or pertaining to the combination of theism and philosophy.

A theosophist.

Of or pertaining to theosophy. -- The`o*soph"ic*al*ly, adv.

Belief in theosophy. Murdock.

One addicted to theosophy. The theosophist is one who gives you a theory of God, or of the works of God, which has not reason, but an inspiration of his own, for its basis. R. A. Vaughan.

Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.