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A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy. Malcom.

Abbatial. [Obs.]

Relating to the patriarch Abraham.

In an achromatic manner.

Of or pertaining to acoustics.

In relation to sound or to hearing. Tyndall.

Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.

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.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

After the manner of an acrostic.

Pertaining to aëronautics, or aërial sailing.

Of or pertaining to aërostatics; pneumatic.

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

Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

In an agonistic manner.

Agrestic. [Obs.]

Relating to or practicing alchemy. Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators. Burke.

Literal. [Obs.] "Alphabetical servility." Milton.

In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.

Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines. Milton. Bp. Bull.