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Laid down; absolute or positive, as a law. Dr. H. More.

Of or Pertaining to æsthetics; versed in æsthetics; as, æsthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. -- Æs*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.

Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.

Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.

By way antithesis.

Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.

In an apathetic manner.

Pertaining to, or abounding with, epithets. "In epithetic measured prose." Lloyd.

Same as Æsthete, Æsthetic, Æsthetical, Æsthetics, etc.

Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical. [Obs.] Hyperthetical or superlative . . . expression. Chapman.

of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the various phenomena of the existence of which our experience informs us. Sir W. Hamilton. Hypothetical baptism (Ch. of Eng.), baptism administered to persons in respect to whom it is doubtful…

Of or pertaining to metathesis.

Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power. [R.] Bp. Barlow.

ure of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales.

In a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses.

Pathetic. [R.] -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ness, n.

Sympathetic.

In a sympathetic manner.

Synthetic, or Synthetical language, an inflectional language, or one characterized by grammatical endings; -- opposed to analytic language. R. Morris.

In a synthetic manner.