*rial*

a. Accusatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way accusation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an acroterium; as, acroterial ornaments. P. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adaptive. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Admonitory. [ R. ] “An admonitorial tone.” Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aërius. See Air. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aërial regions or currents; the aërial maneuvers of a fighter plane. “Aërial spirits.” Milton. “Aërial voyages.” Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aërial spires. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Growing, forming, living, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aërial rootlets, aërial plants; the aerial roots of a philodendron. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Light as air; ethereal. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. operating or operated overhead especially on elevated cables. aerial conveyers for transporting raw materials [ WordNet 1.5 ]

7. operating or moving in the air. an aerial cable car; aerial combat [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Aerial acid, carbonic acid. [ Obs. ] Ure. --
Aerial perspective. See Perspective. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Football) a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer.
Syn. -- forward pass [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a metallic wire, rod, or combination of rods connected to an electronic device, designed to send or receive radio or television signals.
Syn. -- antenna [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an athlete who performs acts high above the ground on a trapeze or high wire, requiring skill and agility and coordination.
Syn. -- trapeze artist [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. a burglar who gains entrance to buildings from the rooftop, sometimes leaping from building to building in the process. A type of second-story man. [ Slang ] [ PJC ]

. (a) A stretched wire or rope elevated above the ground and forming a way along which a trolley may travel, for conveying a load suspended from the trolley. (b) An elevated cableway. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness. The nauseous symptoms similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in pressurized aircraft is called air sickness. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. The state of being aërial; unsubstantiality. [ R. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Like, or from, the air; in an aërial manner. “A murmur heard aërially.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Amatorious. ] Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an amatorial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ancestral. Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With regard to ancestors. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) (a) killing or inhibiting the growth of bacteria; -- applied also to serum for protection against bacterial diseases. (b) Opposed to the bacterial theory of disease. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. (Med.) a chemical substance which kills or inhibits the growth of bacteria. [ PJC ]

n. Opposition to imperialism. This term was applied originally in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matters of commerce and imperial defense. After the second world war, the term became used for opposition to any hegemony of one power over a foreign territory, and to the support for the national independence of territories, as in Africa, which were controlled by European nations. -- An`ti-im*pe"ri*al*ist, n. -- An`ti-im*pe`ri*al*is"tic a. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. Good against malaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to an aquarium. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an archespore. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ F. armorial, fr. armoiries arms, coats of arms, for armoieries, fr. OF. armoier to paint arms, coats of arms, fr. armes, fr. L. arma. See Arms, Armory. ] Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family. [ 1913 Webster ]

Figures with armorial signs of race and birth. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Armorial bearings. See Arms, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. artériel. ] 1. Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. same as arterialize.
Syn. -- arterialize [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Physiol.) The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arterialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Arterializing. ] To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. assessorial, fr. L. assessor. ] Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an atrium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Auditory. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. augurialis. ] Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an author. “The authorial &unr_;we.'” Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Of, pertaining to, or caused by bacteria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bimestris; bis twice + mensis month. ] Continuing two months. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. bi- + serial, seriate. ] In two rows or series. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher. ] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [ Matt. xxvii. 51, 52 ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. “To give a public burial.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body. --
Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of burials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies. --
Burial place, any place where burials are made. --
Burial service. (a) The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. (b) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment; as, the English burial service. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sepulture; interment; inhumation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a cemetery. “Cemeterial cells.” [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Full of censure; censorious. [ 1913 Webster ]

The censorial declamation of Juvenal. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. See Century. ] Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Cerrial. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cerreus, fr. cerrus a kind of oak. ] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the cerris. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chaplets green of cerrial oak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the Clamatores. [ 1913 Webster ]