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Acherontic
Acherontic Ach`e*ron"tic, a. Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
Anacreontic
Anacreontic A*nac`re*on"tic, a. [L. Anacreonticus.] Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. --De Quincey.
Anacreontic
Anacreontic A*nac`re*on"tic, n. A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.
Archontic
Archon Ar"chon, n. [L. archon, Gr. ?, ?, ruler, chief magistrate, p. pr. of ? to be first, to rule.] (Antiq.) One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by pre["e]minence, the first of the nine chief magistrates. -- Ar*chon"tic, a.
Conticent
Conticent Con"ti*cent, a. [L. conticens, p. pr. of conticere; con- + tacere to be silent.] Silent. [R.] ``The guests sit conticent.' --Thackeray.
Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps
Tilefish Tile"fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus cham[ae]leonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots. Note: It was discovered off the Eastern coast of the United States in 1880, and was abundant in 1881, but is believed to have become extinct in 1882.
Mastodontic
Mastodontic Mas`to*don"tic, a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a mastodon; as, mastodontic dimensions. --Everett.
Monticle
Monticle Mon"ti*cle, n. [L. monticulus, dim. of mons, montis, mountain: cf. F. monticule. See Mount, n.] A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence. [Written also monticule.]
Monticulate
Monticulate Mon*tic"u*late, a. Furnished with monticles or little elevations.
Monticule
Monticule Mon"ti*cule, n. See Monticle.
monticule
Monticle Mon"ti*cle, n. [L. monticulus, dim. of mons, montis, mountain: cf. F. monticule. See Mount, n.] A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence. [Written also monticule.]
Monticulous
Monticulous Mon*tic"u*lous, a. Monticulate.
Pontic
Pontic Pon"tic, a. [L. Ponticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the sea, especially, the Black Sea.] Of or pertaining to the Pontus, Euxine, or Black Sea.
Rhaponticine
Rhaponticine Rha*pon"ti*cine, n. [L. rhaponticum rhubarb. See Rhubarb.] (Chem.) Chrysophanic acid.
Rheum Rhaponticum
Pieplant Pie"plant`, n. (Bot.) A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.
Strontic
Strontic Stron"tic, a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to strontium; containing, or designating the compounds of, strontium.

Meaning of Ontic from wikipedia

- relationalism, all of reality is relational at its most fundamental level. Ontic structural realism agrees with this basic idea and focuses on how these...
- The words ontic and entity are derived respectively from the ancient Gr**** and Latin present participles that mean "being". In an ontic inquiry... one...
- structural realist philosopher James Ladyman distinguished epistemic and ontic forms of structural realism. The philosophical concept of (scientific) structuralism...
- its existence. What is ontic is what makes something what it is. For an individual discussing the nature of "being", one's ontic could refer to the physical...
- any possible world. In other words, the term "existentiell" refers to an ontic determination, whereas "existential" refers to an ontological determination...
- there is a balance of ontic goods and ontic evils (ontic evils are those that are not immoral but merely cause pain or suffering, ontic goods are those that...
- thought of as determining or regulating outcomes (ontic). A phenomenon can be interpreted either as ontic or as epistemic. For instance, indeterminism may...
- Mlodinow) Moderate realism Moral realism Naïve realism New realism (philosophy) Ontic structural realism Peircean realism Perspectival realism Platonic realism...
- and Time, the philosopher Martin Heidegger makes the distinction between ontical and ontological, or between beings and being as such. He labeled this the...
- system, at every time, the amount of knowledge one possesses about the ontic state of the system at that time must equal the amount of knowledge one...