HYPER
HYPER, Eng.over, is used in composition to denote excess, or something over or beyond.1. A hypercritic. [Not used.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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HYPERASPIST
HYPERAS'PIST, noun [Gr. a shield.] A defender.
HYPERBATE
HY'PERBATE, noun [Gr. to transgress, or go beyond.In grammar, a figurative construction, inverting the natural and proper order of words and sentences. The species are the anast...
HYPERBATON
HYPER'BATONHYPER'BOLA, noun [Gr. over, beyond, and to throw.]In conic sections and geometry, a curve formed by cutting a cone in a direction parallel to its axis.A section of a ...
HYPERBOLA
HYPER'BOLA, n. [Gr. over, beyond, and to throw.]In conic sections and geometry, a curve formed by cutting a cone in a direction parallel to its axis.A section of a cone, when th...
HYPERBOLE
HYPER'BOLE, noun hyper'boly. [Gr. excess, to throw beyond, to exceed.]In rhetoric, a figure of speech which expresses much more or less than the truth, or which represents thing...
HYPERBOLIC
HYPERBOL'ICHYPERBOL'ICAL, noun Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.1. Relating to or containing hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact...
HYPERBOLICAL
HYPERBOL'ICAL, n. Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.1. Relating to or containing hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding t...
HYPERBOLICALLY
HYPERBOL'ICALLY, adverb In the form of a hyperbola.1. With exaggeration; in a manner to express more or less than the truth.Scylla--is hyperbolically described by Homer as inacc...
HYPERBOLIFORM
HYPERBOL'IFORM, adjective [hyperbola and form.] Having the form, or nearly the form of a hyperbola.
HYPERBOLIST
HYPER'BOLIST, noun One who uses hyperboles.
HYPERBOLIZE
HYPER'BOLIZE, verb intransitive To speak or write with exaggeration.HYPER'BOLIZE, verb transitive To exaggerate or extenuate.
HYPERBOLOID
HYPER'BOLOID, noun [hyperbola, and Gr. form.] A hyperbolic conoid; a solid formed by the revolution of a hyperbola about its axis.
HYPERBOREAN
HYPERBO'REAN, adjective [Latin hyperboreus; Gr. beyond, and the north.]1. Northern; belonging to or inhabiting a region very far north; most northern.2. Very cold; frigid.HYPERB...
HYPERCARBURETED
HYPERC'ARBURETED, adjective Supercarbureted; having the largest proportion of carbon.
HYPERCATALECTIC
HYPERCATALEC'TIC, adjective [Gr. termination.] A hypercatalectic verse, in Greek and Latin poetry, is a verse which has a syllable or two beyond the regular and just measure.
HYPERCRIT-ICISM
HYPERCRIT-ICISM, noun Excessive rigor of criticism.
HYPERCRITIC
HYPERCRIT'IC, noun [Gr. beyond, and critical. See Critic.]One who is critical beyond measure or reason; an over rigid critic; a captious censor.HYPERCRIT'IC
HYPERCRITICAL
HYPERCRIT'ICAL, adjective Over critical; critical beyond use or reason; animadverting on faults with unjust severity; as a hypercritical reader.1. Excessively nice or exact; as ...
HYPERDULIA
HYPERDU'LIA, noun [Gr. beyond, and service.] Super-service in the Romish church, performed to the virgin Mary.
HYPERICON
HYPER'ICON, noun John's wort.
HYPERMETER
HYPER'METER, noun [Gr. beyond, and measure.] Anything greater than the ordinary standard of measure.A verse is called a hypermeter when it contains a syllable more than the ordi...
HYPERMETRICAL
HYPERMET'RICAL, adjective Exceeding the common measure; having a redundant syllable.
HYPEROXYD
HYPEROX'YD, adjective Acute to excess, as a crystal.
HYPEROXYGENATED
HYPEROX'YGENATEDHYPEROX'YGENIZED, adjective [Gr. beyond, and oxygenated, or oxygenized.]Super-saturated with oxygen.
HYPEROXYGENIZED
HYPEROX'YGENIZED, a. [Gr. beyond, and oxygenated, or oxygenized.]Super-saturated with oxygen.
HYPEROXYMURIATE
HYPEROXYMU'RIATE, noun The same as chlorate.