Webster's Dictionary 1828

1675

PHRASE

PHRASE, noun s as z. [Gr. to speak.]1. A short sentence or expression. A phrase may be complete, as when it conveys complete sense, as humanum est errare, to err is human; or it...

1676

PHRASELESS

PHRA'SELESS, adjective Not to be expressed or described.

1677

PHRASEOLOGIC

PHRASEOLOG'ICPHRASEOLOG'ICAL, adjective Peculiar in expression; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

1678

PHRASEOLOGICAL

PHRASEOLOG'ICAL, a. Peculiar in expression; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

1679

PHRASEOLOGY

PHRASEOL'OGY, noun [Gr. phrase, and to speak.]1. Manner of expression; peculiar words used in a sentence; diction.2. A collection of phrases in a language.

1680

PHRENETIC

PHRENET'IC, adjective [Gr. See Phrensy.] Subject to strong or violent sallies of imagination or excitement, which in some measure pervert the judgment and cause the person to ac...

1681

PHRENIC

PHREN'IC, adjective [from Gr. the diaphragm.] Belonging to the diaphragm; as a phrenic vein.

1682

PHRENITIS

PHREN'ITIS, noun [Gr. from the mind; Latin animus, animosus, and the Teutonic mod; Eng. mood.]1. In medicine, an inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, atte...

1683

PHRENOLOGY

PHRENOL'OGY, noun [Gr. the mind, and discourse.] The science of the human mind and its various properties.Phrenology is now applied to the science of the mind as connected with ...

1684

PHRENSY

PHREN'SY, noun s as z. [supra.] Madness; delirium, or that partial madness which manifests itself in wild and erratic sallies of the imagination. It is written also frenzy.Demon...

1685

PHRONTISTERY

PHRON'TISTERY, noun [Gr. to think; mind.] A school or seminary of learning. [Not used.]

1686

PHRYGIAN

PHRYG'IAN, adjective [from Phrygia, in Asia Minor.] Pertaining to Phrygia; an epithet applied to a sprightly animating kind of music.Phrygian stone, a stone described by the anc...

1687

PHTHAGOREAN

PHTHAGOREAN, noun A follower of Pythagoras, the founder of the Italic sect of philosophers.

1688

PHTHISIC

PHTHIS'IC, noun tiz'zic. A consumption. [Little used.]

1689

PHTHISICAL

PHTHISICAL, adjective tiz'zical. [Gr. See Phthisis.] Wasting the flesh; as a phthisical consumption.

1690

PHTHISIS

PHTHISIS, noun the'sis or thi'sis. [Gr. to consume.] A consumption occasioned by ulcerated lungs.

1691

PHYLACTER

PHYLAC'TERPHYLAC'TERED, adjective Wearing a phylactery; dressed like the Pharisees.

1692

PHYLACTERED

PHYLAC'TERED, a. Wearing a phylactery; dressed like the Pharisees.

1693

PHYLACTERIC

PHYLAC'TERICPHYLACTER'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to phylacteries.

1694

PHYLACTERICAL

PHYLACTER'ICAL, a. Pertaining to phylacteries.

1695

PHYLACTERY

PHYLAC'TERY, noun [Gr. to defend or guard.]1. In a general sense, any charm, spell or amulet worn as a preservative from danger or disease.2. Among the Jews, a slip of parchment...

1696

PHYLLITE

PHYL'LITE, noun [Gr. a leaf, and a stone.] A petrified leaf, or a mineral having the figure of a leaf.

1697

PHYLLOPHOROUS

PHYLLOPH'OROUS, adjective [Gr. a leaf, and to bear.] Leaf-bearing; producing leaves.

1698

PHYSALITE

PHYS'ALITE, noun [Gr. to swell or inflate, and a stone.] A mineral of a greenish white color, a subspecies of prismatic topaz; called also pyrophysalite, as it intumesces in heat.

1699

PHYSETER

PHYSETER. [See Cachalot.]

1700

PHYSIANTHROPY

PHYSIAN'THROPY, noun [Gr.nature, and man.] The philosophy of human life, or the doctrine of the constitution and diseases of man, and the remedies.

1701

PHYSIC

PHYS'IC, noun s as z. [Gr. from nature; to produce.]1. The art of healing diseases. This is now generally called medicine.2. Medicines; remedies for diseases. We desire physic o...