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80 words match “PLASTIC”

PLASTIC a. 4 definitions
Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator. Prior. See plastic Nature working to his end. Pope.
PLASTICAL a.
See Plastic. [R.]
PLASTICALLY adv.
In a plastic manner.
PLASTICITY n. 2 definitions
The quality or state of being plastic.
AMYLOPLASTIC a.
Starch-forming; amylogenic.
ANAPLASTIC a.
Of or pertaining to anaplasty.
ANTIPLASTIC a. 2 definitions
Diminishing plasticity.
APLASTIC a.
Not plastic or easily molded.
AUTOPLASTIC a.
Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
BIOPLASTIC a.
Bioplasmic.
CEROPLASTIC a. 2 definitions
Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure.
CEROPLASTICS; CEROPLASTY n.
The art of modeling in wax.
COSMOPLASTIC a.
Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming. "Cosmoplastic and hylozoic atheisms." Gudworth.
DEUTOPLASTIC a.
Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm.
ECTOPLASTIC a.
Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm.
EMBRYOPLASTIC n.
Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells.
EMPLASTIC a. 2 definitions
Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.
ENDOPLASTICA n.
A group of Rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the am
ENTOPLASTIC a.
Pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced.
ESEMPLASTIC a.
Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity. [R.] Coleridge.
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