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Sweet. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fairfax.

Subtile. [Obs.]

A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.

See Creosote.

To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.

through Mexico. It has yellow flowers and very resinous foliage with a strong odor of creosote.

losophers. Opposed to exoteric. Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey.

Esoteric.

In an esoteric manner.

Esoteric doctrine or principles.

Mysterious or hidden doctrines; secret science.

Mystery; esoterics; -- opposed to exotery. A. Tucker.

See Creosote.

Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

Guaiacol benzoate, used as an intestinal antiseptic and as a substitute for creosote in phthisis. It is a colorless crystalline pewder.

Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc. Cresylic acid. (Chem.) See Cresol.

rted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret. The foppery of an exoteric and esoteric doctrine. De Quincey.

The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics.

he methyl ether of pyrocatechin, and is obtained by distilling guaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways. It has been used in treating pulmonary tuberculosis.

rless liquid, C6H4,OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.