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Paradigmatic
- adjective - of or relating to a grammatical paradigm; "paradigmatic inflection"
- of or relating to a typical example; "paradigmatic learning"
- related as members of a substitution class; "paradigmatic word associations"
Paramagnetic
- adjective - of or relating to a paramagnet
Paraphrastic
- adjective - altered by paraphrasing
Patricentric
- adjective - centered upon the father
Pentacrostic
- - A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.
Pentadecylic
- - Same as Quindecylic<-- = pentadecyl? -->.
Pentathionic
- - Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of sulphur obtained by leading hydrogen sulphide into a solution of sulphur dioxide; -- so called because it contains five atoms of sulphur.
Periphrastic
- adjective - roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
Peristrephic
- - Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a peristrephic painting (of a panorama).