Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In medicine, having power to divide, dissolve, or corrode; escharotic; corrosive.

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  • adjective of, or relating to dieresis

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Examples

  • I'm sure he'd never wither the roof of mumblings with a medial syncope, nor slight the vulgarly consonantal i in millionaire, but give it the same dieretic value it enjoys in idiom.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3 1988

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