*dental*

n. 1. A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally. [ 1913 Webster ]

He conceived it just that accidentals . . . should sink with the substance of the accusation. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Paint.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Accidental character or effect. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being accidental; casualness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having two teeth. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Coincident. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dentale. See Dental, a. ] 1. An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf. F. dental. See Tooth. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phon.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d and t are dental letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dental formula (Zool.), a brief notation used by zoologists to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal. --
Dental surgeon, a dentist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being formed by the aid of the teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth. ] (Zool.) A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Edentate, a. -- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Edentata. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Edentate, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An incident; that which is incidental; esp., in the plural, an aggregate of subordinate or incidental items not particularized; as, the expense of tuition and incidentals. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

By some, religious duties . . . appear to be regarded . . . as an incidental business. Rogers.

Syn. -- Accidental; casual; fortuitous; contingent; chance; collateral. See Accidental.

-- In`ci*den"tal*ly, adv. -- In`ci*den"tal*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

I treat either or incidentally of colors. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Situated between teeth; as, an interdental space, the space between two teeth in a gear wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phon.) Formed between the upper and lower teeth; as, interdental consonants. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Labium + dental. ] (Phonetics) Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v. -- n. A labiodental sound or letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lingua tongue + E. dental. ] (Phonetics) Formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Phonetics) An articulation pronounced by the aid or use of the tongue and teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Linguadental. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. occidentalis; cf. F. occidental. ] 1. Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Possessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; -- used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Eccl.) Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. transcendantal, G. transcendental. ] 1. Supereminent; surpassing others; as, transcendental being or qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philos.) In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In mathematics, a quantity is said to be transcendental relative to another quantity when it is expressed as a transcendental function of the latter; thus, ax, 102x, log x, sin x, tan x, etc., are transcendental relative to x. [ 1913 Webster ]

Transcendental curve (Math.), a curve in which one ordinate is a transcendental function of the other. --
Transcendental equation (Math.), an equation into which a transcendental function of one of the unknown or variable quantities enters. --
Transcendental function. (Math.) See under Function. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Transcendental, Empirical. These terms, with the corresponding nouns, transcendentalism and empiricism, are of comparatively recent origin. Empirical refers to knowledge which is gained by the experience of actual phenomena, without reference to the principles or laws to which they are to be referred, or by which they are to be explained. Transcendental has reference to those beliefs or principles which are not derived from experience, and yet are absolutely necessary to make experience possible or useful. Such, in the better sense of the term, is the transcendental philosophy, or transcendentalism. Each of these words is also used in a bad sense, empiricism applying to that one-sided view of knowledge which neglects or loses sight of the truths or principles referred to above, and trusts to experience alone; transcendentalism, to the opposite extreme, which, in its deprecation of experience, loses sight of the relations which facts and phenomena sustain to principles, and hence to a kind of philosophy, or a use of language, which is vague, obscure, fantastic, or extravagant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A transcendentalist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. transcendantalisme, G. transcendentalismus. ] 1. (Kantian Philos.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ As Schelling and Hegel claim to have discovered the absolute identity of the objective and subjective in human knowledge, or of things and human conceptions of them, the Kantian distinction between transcendent and transcendental ideas can have no place in their philosophy; and hence, with them, transcendentalism claims to have a true knowledge of all things, material and immaterial, human and divine, so far as the mind is capable of knowing them. And in this sense the word transcendentalism is now most used. It is also sometimes used for that which is vague and illusive in philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. transcendantaliste. ] One who believes in transcendentalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being transcendental. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a transcendental manner. [ 1913 Webster ]