| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb amphidromically.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (amphidromically) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective amphidromical.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "AMPHIDROMICAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Etymology:Amphidromical \Am`phi*drom"ic*al\, adjective. [from Greek expression 'amfi`dromos running about or around.]. (references) |
