Word Meanings - XANTHOGEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hypothetical radical supposed to be characteristic of xanthic acid. Persulphocyanogen.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• RADICALNESS
  Quality or state of being radical.
• PERSULPHOCYANOGEN
  An orange-yellow substance, produced by the action of chlorine or boiling dilute nitric acid and sulphocyanate of potassium; -- called also pseudosulphocyanogen, perthiocyanogen, and formerly sulphocyanogen.
• RADICAL
  One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative. In politics they were, to use phrase of their own time. "Root-and-Branch men,"
• SUPPOSURE
  Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. Hudibras.
• SUPPOSABLE
  Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. -- Sup*pos"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*pos"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPOSITIVE
  Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Hammond.
• RADICALLY
  1. In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. 2. Without derivation; primitively; essentially. These great orbs thus radically bright. Prior.
• SUPPOSITITIOUS
  1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. Bacon. 2. Suppositional; hypothetical. Woodward. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly,
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• SUPPOSAL
  The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion. Shak. Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal, at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom. South.
• RADICALISM
  The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses. F. W. Robertson.
• SUPPOSEER
  One who supposes.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• SUPPOSITOR
  An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.
• RADICALITY
  1. Germinal principle; source; origination. Sir T. Browne. 2. Radicalness; relation to root in essential to a root in essential nature or principle.
• SUPPOSITION
  under, a substitution, fr. supponere, suppositium, to put under, to substitute. The word has the meaning corresponding to suppose. See 1. The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be
• SUPPOSITORY
  A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter. (more info) L. suppositorius that is placed underneath: cf. F. suppositoire. See
• SUPPOSITIONAL
  Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed. South.
• XANTHIC
  1. Tending toward a yellow color, or to one of those colors, green being excepted, in which yellow is a constituent, as scarlet, orange, etc. Possessing, imparting, or producing a yellow color; as, xanthic acid. Of or pertaining to xanthic acid,
• SPORADICAL
  Sporadic.
• EQUIRADICAL
  Equally radical. Coleridge.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• EUXANTHIC
  Having a yellow color; pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, euxanthin. Euxanthic acid , a yellow, crystalline, organic acid, extracted from euxanthin.
• HYDROXANTHIC
  Persulphocyanic.
• INSUPPOSABLE
  Incapable of being supposed; not supposable; inconceivable.
• PRESUPPOSE
  To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator. Each presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand. Hooker.