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e principles, or the like: original; fundamental; thorough-going; unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils; radical reform; a radical party. The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence. Burke.

The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses. F. W. Robertson.

Radicalness; relation to root in essential to a root in essential nature or principle.

In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective.

Quality or state of being radical.

Equally radical. [R.] Coleridge.

Sporadic.

In a sporadic manner.

A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.

wn peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen…

Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

An acid radical, as acetyl, malonyl, or benzoyl.

inic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

ich a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.