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In a dialectical manner.

One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.

That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.

That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects. Beck.

One skilled in dialectics.

Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.

Same as Dorsal, n.

One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.

The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities.

Ale. [Obs.] Shak.

A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.

To make up into a bale or pack. Johnson.

To make pale. [Obs.] No bloodless malady empales their face. G. Fletcher.

Same as Impalement.

To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton.

To cover with scales.

A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter. Gibbs.

One of the bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula.

The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions.

Same as Equivalence.