Definition of Diaeretic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Diaeretic

1. Caustic. Origin: Gr. Dividing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diaeretic

diadenosine polyphosphate hydrolase
diadenosine triphosphate hydrolase
diadermic
diadochi
diadochocinesia
diadochokinesia
diadochokinetic
Diadophis
diadrom
diadromous
diadromous
diadroms
diaereses
diaeresis
diaeretic (current term)
diaeretic (current term)
diageneses
diagenesis
diagenetic
diagenetically
diageotropic
diageotropic
diageotropism
Diaghilev
diaglyph
diaglyphs
diagnosable
diagnose
diagnose
diagnoseable

Literary usage of Diaeretic

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1. Hymns of the Eastern Church by John Mason Neale, Stephen Georgeson Hatherly (1882)
"The frequent introduction of tunes based on the abnormal diaeretic scale could ... One strain also of the tune on page 77 is written in the diaeretic scale. ..."

2. Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum by Francis Bacon, James Edwin Creighton (1900)
"... diaeretic, cryptic, homeric, etc., they are already justly discovered and ranged. Method has two parts, one regarding the disposition of a whole work or ..."

3. Of the Origin and Progress of Language by James Burnett Monboddo (1774)
"... of the antient dividing, or diaeretic manner, as they called it, that is to be found in any modern book, as far as I know *. ..."

4. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"... diaeretic, cryptic, homeric, etc., they are already justly discovered and ranged. Method has two parts, one regarding the disposition of a whole work or ..."

5. The Works of James Harris, Esq. by James Harris (1841)
"Lord Monboddo, speaking of the Dialogue upon Art, praises it, as containing " the best specimen of the dividing, or diaeretic manner, as the ancients called ..."

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