Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See dieretic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.), obsolete Caustic.

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Examples

  • These representations are constantly “worked over” by apperception, which through its synthetic and diaeretic activity constructs them into ever “higher developmental forms of consciousness,” such that in the end their origins in sensation and perception might be completely erased.

    Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt Kim, Alan 2006

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