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  • English Word Diabolify Definition To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil.
  • English Word Diabolism Definition Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.
  • English Word Diabolism Definition Possession by the devil.
  • English Word Diabolize Definition To render diabolical.
  • English Word Diacatholicon Definition A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary.
  • English Word Diacaustic Definition Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic.
  • English Word Diacaustic Definition That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery.
  • English Word Diacaustic Definition A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.
  • English Word Diachylon Definition Alt. of Diachylum
  • English Word Diachylum Definition A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.
  • English Word Diacid Definition Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid.
  • English Word Diacodium Definition A sirup made of poppies.
  • English Word Diaconal Definition Of or pertaining to a deacon.
  • English Word Diaconate Definition The office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons.
  • English Word Diaconate Definition Governed by deacons.
  • English Word Diacope Definition Tmesis.
  • English Word Diacoustic Definition Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.
  • English Word Diacoustics Definition That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics.
  • English Word Diacritic Definition Alt. of Diacritical
  • English Word Diacritical Definition That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, /, a, /, /, etc.
  • English Word Diactinic Definition Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.
  • English Word Diadelphia Definition A Linnaean class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.
  • English Word Diadelphian Definition Alt. of Diadelphous
  • English Word Diadelphous Definition Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).
  • English Word Diadem Definition Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general.
  • English Word Diadem Definition Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.
  • English Word Diadem Definition An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center.
  • English Word Diadem Definition To adorn with a diadem; to crown.
  • English Word Diadrom Definition A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum.
  • English Word Diaereses Definition of Dieresis