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
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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.
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