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- Special case
- The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion;
restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included,
as in a class, statement, rule.
- That which is excepted or taken out from others; a
person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as,
almost every general rule has its exceptions.
- An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of
an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in
the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of
time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also,
as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something
before granted.
- An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense;
cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
- Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative;
dogmatic.
- Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor;
hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup.
- Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; --
opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.
- A sovereign medicine or remedy.
- A magistral line.
- Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores
of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.
- Conference
- Meeting for discussion
- The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of
two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.
- A council or conference, as of physicians, held to
consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.
- The condition, quality, or relation of metameric
substances, or their respective derivatives, which are more or less
interchangeable, according as one form or the other is the more stable.
It is a special case of metamerism; thus, the lactam and the lactim
compounds exhibit tautomerism.