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Accomplicity
Accomplicity Ac`com*plic"i*ty, n.
The act or state of being an accomplice. [R.]
Achromaticity
Achromaticity Ach`ro*ma*tic"i*ty, n.
Achromatism.
Allotropicity
Allotropicity Al*lot`ro*pic"i*ty, n.
Allotropic property or nature.
Anglicity
Anglicity An*glic"i*ty, n.
The state or quality of being English.
Animal electricityAnimal An"i*mal, a. [Cf. F. animal.]
1. Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
2. Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as
distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or
spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
3. Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.
Animal magnetism. See Magnetism and Mesmerism.
Animal electricity, the electricity developed in some
animals, as the electric eel, torpedo, etc.
Animal flower (Zo["o]l.), a name given to certain marine
animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or
sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishes,
etc.
Animal heat (Physiol.), the heat generated in the body of a
living animal, by means of which the animal is kept at
nearly a uniform temperature.
Animal spirits. See under Spirit.
Animal kingdom, the whole class of beings endowed with
animal life. It embraces several subkingdoms, and under
these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera,
Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in
regular subordination, but variously arranged by different
writers.
Note: The following are the grand divisions, or subkingdoms,
and the principal classes under them, generally
recognized at the present time: Apostolicity
Apostolicism Ap`os*tol"i*cism, Apostolicity
A*pos`to*lic"i*ty, n.
The state or quality of being apostolical.
Basicity
Basicity Ba*sic"i*ty, n. (Chem.)
(a) The quality or state of being a base.
(b) The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or
equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of
replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
Biplicity
Biplicity Bi*plic"i*ty, n.
The state of being twice folded; reduplication. [R.]
--Bailey.
Caloricity
Caloricity Cal`o*ric"ity, n. (Physiol.)
A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat
necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.
Catholicity
Catholicity Cath`o*lic"i*ty, n.
1. The state or quality of being catholic; universality.
2. Liberality of sentiments; catholicism.
3. Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by
all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine
so held; orthodoxy.
4. Adherence to the doctrines of the church of Rome, or the
doctrines themselves.
Centricity
Centricity Cen*tric"i*ty, n.
The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.
Cerebricity
Cerebricity Cer`e*bric"i*ty, n.
Brain power. [R.]
Clericity
Clericity Cler*ic"i*ty, n.
The state of being a clergyman.
Concentricity
Concentricity Con`cen*tric"i*ty, n.
The state of being concentric.
Cylindricity
Cylindricity Cyl*`in*dric"i*ty (s?l`?n-dr?s"?-t?), n.
The quality or condition of being cylindrical.
Dibasicity
Dibasicity Di`ba*sic"i*ty, n. (Chem.)
The property or condition of being dibasic.
Didacticity
Didacticity Di`dac*tic"i*ty, n.
Aptitude for teaching. --Hare.
Dynamical electricityDynamic Dy*nam"ic, Dynamical Dy*nam"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?
powerful, fr. ? power, fr. ? to be able; cf. L. durus hard,
E. dure: cf. F. dynamique.]
1. Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or
power; characterized by energy or production of force.
Science, as well as history, has its past to show,
-- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is
dynamic, not divine. --J.
Martineau.
The vowel is produced by phonetic, not by dynamic,
causes. --J. Peile.
2. Relating to physical forces, effects, or laws; as,
dynamical geology.
As natural science has become more dynamic, so has
history. --Prof. Shedd.
Dynamical electricity. See under Electricity. Evangelicity
Evangelicity E*van`ge*lic"i*ty, n.
Evangelicism.
ExcentricityExcentricity Ex`cen*tric"i*ty (Math.)
Same as Eccentricity. HistoricityHistoric His*tor"ic, Historical His*tor"ic*al, a. [L.
historicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. historique. See History.]
Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events;
as, an historical poem; the historic page. --
His*tor"ic*al*ness, n. -- His*to*ric"i*ty, n.
There warriors frowning in historic brass. --Pope.
Historical painting, that branch of painting which
represents the events of history.
Historical sense, that meaning of a passage which is
deduced from the circumstances of time, place, etc., under
which it was written.
The historic sense, the capacity to conceive and represent
the unity and significance of a past era or age. Hygroscopicity
Hygroscopicity Hy`gro*sco*pic"i*ty, n. (Bot.)
The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or
discharging moisture according to circumstances.
Implicity
Implicity Im*plic"i*ty, n.
Implicitness. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
Inelasticity
Inelasticity In`e*las*tic"i*ty, n.
Want of elasticity.
Jeffersonian simplicity
Jeffersonian simplicity Jeffersonian simplicity
The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in
his administration as President (1801-1809), eschewing
display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from
the people, as in going to the capital on horseback and with
no escort, the abolition of court etiquette and the weekly
levee, refusal to recognize titles of honor, etc.
Magneto-electricity
Magneto-electricity Mag`net*o-e`lec*tric"i*ty, n.
1. Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.
2. (Physics) That branch of science which treats of the
development of electricity by the action of magnets; --
the counterpart of electro-magnetism.
Organic electricityOrganic Or*gan"ic, a. [L. organicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. organique.]
1. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or
to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or
containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and
plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living
organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic
remains. Cf. Inorganic.
2. Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure. [R.]
3. Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to
a certain destined function or end. [R.]
Those organic arts which enable men to discourse and
write perspicuously. --Milton.
4. Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence: Of or
pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or
resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic
government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but
organic.
5. Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the large series of
substances which, in nature or origin, are connected with
vital processes, and include many substances of artificial
production which may or may not occur in animals or
plants; -- contrasted with inorganic.
Note: The principles of organic and inorganic chemistry are
identical; but the enormous number and the completeness
of related series of organic compounds, together with
their remarkable facility of exchange and substitution,
offer an illustration of chemical reaction and homology
not to be paralleled in inorganic chemistry.
Organic analysis (Chem.), the analysis of organic
compounds, concerned chiefly with the determination of
carbon as carbon dioxide, hydrogen as water, oxygen as the
difference between the sum of the others and 100 per cent,
and nitrogen as free nitrogen, ammonia, or nitric oxide;
-- formerly called ultimate analysis, in distinction from
proximate analysis.
Organic chemistry. See under Chemistry.
Organic compounds. (Chem.) See Carbon compounds, under
Carbon.
Organic description of a curve (Geom.), the description of
a curve on a plane by means of instruments. --Brande & C.
Organic disease (Med.), a disease attended with morbid
changes in the structure of the organs of the body or in
the composition of its fluids; -- opposed to functional
disease.
Organic electricity. See under Electricity.
Organic law or laws, a law or system of laws, or
declaration of principles fundamental to the existence and
organization of a political or other association; a
constitution.
Organic stricture (Med.), a contraction of one of the
natural passages of the body produced by structural
changes in its walls, as distinguished from a spasmodic
stricture, which is due to muscular contraction. PernicityPernicity Per*nic"i*ty, n. [L. pernicitas. See 1st
Pernicious.]
Swiftness; celerity. [R.] --Ray. Pneumaticity
Pneumaticity Pneu`ma*tic"i*ty, n. (Biol.)
The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or
cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones
of birds.
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