New Word-Analysis Part 41

FAN'CIFUL, _full of fancy; abounding in wild images_.

FANTA'SIA, _a musical composition avowedly not governed by the ordinary musical rules_.

PHAN'TOM, _a specter, an apparation_.

PHASE, _an appearance_.

PHENOM'ENON, _anything presented to the senses by experiment or observation; an unusual appearance_.

SYC'OPHANT (Gr. n. _sukon_, a fig, and, literally, an informer against stealers of figs), _a mean flatterer_.

25. PHO'NE (f???), _a sound_.

PHONET'IC, PHON'IC _according to sound_.

EU'PHONY, _an agreeable sound of words_.

SYM'PHONY, _harmony of mingled sounds; a musical composition for a full band of instruments_.

26. PHOS (f??, f?t??), _light_.

PHOS'PHORUS (Gr. v. _pherein_, to bear), _a substance resembling wax, highly inflammable, and luminous in the dark_.

PHOS'PHATE, _a salt of phosphoric acid_.

PHOSPh.o.r.eS'CENT, _luminous in the dark_.

PHOSPHOR'IC, _relating to or obtained from phosphorus_.

PHOTOG'RAPHY. See _graphein_.

27. PHU'SIS (f?s??), _nature_.

PHYS'IC, _medicines_.

PHYS'ICAL, _natural; material; relating to the body_.

PHYSI'CIAN, _one skilled in the art of healing_.

PHYS'ICIST, _a student of nature_.

PHYS'ICS, _natural philosophy_.

PHYSIOG'NOMY (Gr. n. _gno'mon_, a judge), _the art of discerning the character of the mind from the features of the face; the particular cast of features or countenance_.

PHYSIOL'OGY. See _logos_.

METAPHYS'ICS, literally, _after or beyond physics_; hence, _the science of mind_.

METAPHYSI'CIAN, _one versed in metaphysics_.

28. POL'IS (p????), _a city_.

POLICE', _the body of officers employed to secure the good order of a city_.

POL'ICY, _the art or manner of governing a nation or conducting public affairs; prudence_.

POL'ITIC, _wise, expedient_.

POLIT'ICAL, _relating to politics_.

POLITI'CIAN, _one devoted to politics_.

POL'ITICS, _the art or science of government; struggle of parties_.

POL'ITY, _the const.i.tution of civil government_.

ACROP'OLIS (Gr. adj. _ak'ros_, high), _a citadel_.

COSMOP'OLITE (Gr. n. _kos'mos_, the world), _a citizen of the world_.

METROP'OLIS (Gr. n. _me'ter_, a mother), _the chief city of a country_.

NECROP'OLIS (Gr. adj. _nek'ros_, dead), _a burial-place; a city of the dead_.

29. RHE'O ('?e?), _I flow, I speak_.

RHET'ORIC, _the art of composition; the science of oratory_.

RHETORI'CIAN, _one skilled in rhetoric_.

RHEU'MATISM, _a disease of the limbs_ (so called because the ancients supposed it to arise from a deflection of the humors).

RES'IN, _a gum which flows from certain trees_.

CATARRH', _a discharge of fluid from the nose caused by cold in the head_.

DIARRHOE'A, _purging_.

HEM'ORRHAGE (Gr. n. _haima_, blood), _a flowing of blood_.

30. SKOP'EIN (s??pe??), _to see, to watch_.