A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute.

False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot.

A false embryo. An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.

Of or pertaining to pseudepigraphy.

Inscribed with a false name.

The ascription of false names of authors to works.

Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids.

An a/rial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.

The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (Smilax Pseudo-china), found in America.

One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.

A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, metameric with mesitylene and cumene, found in coal tar, and obtained as a colorless liquid.

Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column. A pseudo-dipteral temple.

False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).

Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system.

Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.

Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.

Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.

Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. A pseudo-peripteral temple.

Falsely romantic.

Exhibiting pseudo-symmetry.

A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.

Microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria.

False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects.

Same as Pseudobranchia.

A rudimentary branchia, or gill.

That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig.

Same as Pseudoc/lia.

The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle.

Not true in opinion or doctrine; false. A false opinion or doctrine.

One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarin/.

A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

False writing; forgery.

One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.

One who utters falsehoods; a liar.

Falsehood of speech.

An irregular or deceptive form.

The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.

Not having the true form.

Same as Pseudonavicula.

One of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of Gregarin/ and some other Protozoa.

division of insects (Zool.) reticulated wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc. By some Zoologists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others, with the Neuroptera.

Of or pertaining to the Pseudoneuroptera.

A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name; an alias.

The using of fictitious names, as by authors.

Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work.

Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.

Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa.

Same as Pseudopod.

A stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees and certain other hymenopterous insects.

One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

An instrument which exhibits objects with their proper relief reversed; -- an effect opposite to that produced by the stereoscope.

Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a pseudoscope; having its parts appearing with the relief reversed; as, a pseudoscopic image.

An order of Arachnoidea having the palpi terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a caudal sting; the false scorpions. Called also Pseudoscorpii, and Pseudoscorpionina. See Illust. of Book scorpion, under Book.

The surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix. This surface corresponds in non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its elements.

A peculiar reproductive cell found in some fungi.

Any starlike meteor or phenomenon.

A group of cells resembling a stoma, but without any true aperture among them.

A division of beetles having the fifth tarsal joint minute and obscure, so that there appear to be but four joints.

The bee moth, or wax moth (Galleria).

See under Turbinal.

An egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larv/ of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of P/dogenesis.

To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation / Pshaw!/

Pertaining to, or embodying, psilanthropy. /A psilanthropic explanation./

Psilanthropy.

One who believes that Christ was a mere man.

The doctrine of the merely human existence of Christ.

Love of empty of empty talk or noise.

A hydrous oxide of manganese, occurring in smooth, botryoidal forms, and massive, and having an iron-black or steel-gray color.

birds whose young at first have down on the pteryl/ only; -- called also Gymnop/des.

Having down upon the pteryl/ only; -- said of the young of certain birds.

A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.

A yellow pigment found in the feathers of certain parrots.

The order of birds which comprises the parrots.

Of or pertaining to the parrots, or the Psittaci. One of the Psittaci.

An internal muscle arising from the lumbar vertebr/ and inserted into the femur. In man there are usually two on each side, and the larger one, or great psoas, forms a part of the iliopsoas.

A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch.

The state of being affected with psora. A cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin.

Of or pertaining to psora.

A minute parasite, usually the young of Gregarin/, in the pseudonavicula stage.

Attractive; persuasive.

A necromancer.

Of or pertaining to the soul; psychical.

same as psychoanalysis; -- an older term now obsolete.

A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul.

Any small moth of the genus Psyche and allied genera (family Psychid/). The larv/ are called basket worms. See Basket worm, under Basket.

Of or pertaining to psychiatry.

The application of the healing art to mental diseases.

Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.

Psychology.

The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

To investigate or subject to treatment by psychoanalysis.

A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis and treatment pf psychoneuroses, based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that neurosis is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, effort being made to bring unconsciuos and preconscious material to consciousness; the methods include analysis of transferance and resistance. In some variants, stress is laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion.

To investigate or subject to treatment by psychoanalysis.

Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection.

A description of the phenomena of mind.

Of or pertaining to psychology. See Note under Psychic.

One who is versed in, devoted to, psychology.

A psychologist.

The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.

A conflict of the soul with the body.

Necromancy.

The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.

The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.

Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2.

Of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man.

The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.

A leader or guide of souls .

The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.

Psychotherapeutics.

Designating, or applied to the Era of man; as, the psychozoic era.

An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.

Of or pertaining to the psychrometer or psychrometry.

Hygrometry.

Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllid/.

Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.

A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a feather.

Of or pertaining to the Ptenoglossa.

A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more.

A group of pterodactyls destitute of teeth, as in the genus Pteranodon.