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ode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. South.

Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.

Same as Dialectics. Plato placed his dialectic above all sciences. Liddell & Scott.

Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.

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.

A subordinate dialect.

To change or translate from one dialect into another. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

lis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect.

Æolian, 1; as, the Æolic dialect; the Æolic mode.

The language of the Alemanni. The Swabian dialect . . . is known as the Alemannic. Amer. Cyc.

The language of the Armoricans, a Celtic dialect which has remained to the present times.

erly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." Poem in Essex dialect.

of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.

A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English. Or take, Hibernis, thy still ranker brogue. Lloyd.

The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; Chaldee.