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- So-called - a. - So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).
- Calvinism - n. - The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches.
- Romanticism - n. - A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.
- Philanthropinism - n. - A system of education on so-called natural principles, attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of Dessau.
- Streptobacteria - n. pl. - A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain.
- Vibrissa - n. - One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.
- Mycelium - n. - The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn.
- Cyclopaedia - n. - The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.
- Hypnogenic - a. - Relating to the production of hypnotic sleep; as, the so-called hypnogenic pressure points, pressure upon which is said to cause an attack of hypnotic sleep.
- Gobelin - a. - Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.
- English - a. - Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
- Spinozism - n. - The form of Pantheism taught by Benedict Spinoza, that there is but one substance, or infinite essence, in the universe, of which the so-called material and spiritual beings and phenomena are only modes, and that one this one substance is God.
- Magnesium - n. - A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.4. Specific gravity, 1.75.
- Spermatophorous - a. - Producing seed, or sperm; seminiferous; as, the so-called spermatophorous cells.
- Valency - n. - A unit of combining power; a so-called bond of affinity.
- Uredospore - n. - The thin-walled summer spore which is produced during the so-called Uredo stage of certain rusts. See (in the Supplement) Uredinales, Heter/cious, etc.
- Gnostic - n. - One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.
- Contraposition - n. - A so-called immediate inference which consists in denying the original subject of the contradictory predicate; e.g.: Every S is P; therefore, no Not-P is S.
- Mannite - n. - A white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite.
- Soul - n. - The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."
- Trophic - a. - Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.
- Margarate - n. - A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base.
- Podetium - n. - A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.
- Melitose - n. - A variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, extracted from cotton seeds and from the so-called Australian manna (a secretion of certain species of Eucalyptus).
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