acrimony

[In Fr. acrimonie; Ital. acri monia, fr. Lat. a crim on i a. Webster thinks the Lat. suff. -monia = Eng. -mony, may come from the same source as Lat. maneo, Gr. μένω (meno) = to remain. The suffix -mony signifies the quality or condition, like hood in knighthood. Acrimony is explained in the Glo ary to Philemon Holland's Trans. of Pliny's Nat . Hist . (A.D. 1601) as being then of recent intro-duction into the English. (Trench.) 1 Lit .: Sharpne , pungency, corrosivene (applied to material substances ). "... for those milke have all an acrimony, though one would think they should be lenitive. -Bacon: Nat . Hist . 2. Fig .: Sharpne , pungency ( applied to the mind or language). Bitterne of speech. "In his official letters he expre ed with great acrimony his contempt for the king's character and understanding."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xii. Sometimes used in the plural. to soothe the acrimonies which the debate had kindled."-Froude: Hist. Eng . , ch. xvi. tắc-ri-sỹ, s. [Gr. ἀκρισία (@krisia) = want of distinctne in judgment; ἄκριτος ( akritos ) = unarranged, undistinguishable: ἀ, priv.; κρίνω (krino) = to separate, to pick out, to decide.] 1. Inability to judge, want of judgment. ( Bailey .) 2. Med .: A case on which it is very difficult to pronounce, or on which one does not like to pronounce, the symptoms being unfavourable. ặc-ri-ta, s . pl. [Gr. άκριτος (akritos), n. pl. ἄκριτα ( akrita ) = unarranged, undetermined, confused: a, priv.; κριτός = separated, picked out; verbal adj . from κρίνω ( krino ) = to separate.] L Zoology : 1. A term introduced by Mr. Macleay, the founder of the now extinct circular or quinary school of zoologists, and used by him to designate those animals in which, as he believed, the nervous system was confusedly blended with the other ti ues, or, in other words, that in which nervous molecules dispersed over, or, as it were, confounded with the substance of those gelatinous animals, impregnated their whole structure with sensibility. He included under the Acrita the following five cla es:-(1) Polypi vaginati ; (2) Poiypi natantes; (3) In test in a; (4) Agas tri a, or Infusoria; and (5) Polypi rudes . These five cla es he believed to constitute a circle. 2. In 1835 Profe or Owen proposed to use the word in a more restricted sense for animals whose nervous system is obscure. His Acrita do not figure as a sub-kingdom of animals, but constitute a series of the Radiated sub-kingdom running parallel to another series, thus: NEMA TON EUR A. ACRITA. Cla Radiaria ( Lamarck ). Echinoderm at a ( Cuvier ). Acaleph a ( Cuvier ). Cla Polypi ( Cuvier ). Ciliobrachiata ( Farre ). Anthozoa ( Ehrenb .). Nudibranch i at a ( Farre ). Cla Entozoa ( Rudolphi ). Cælelmintha ( Owen ). Sterelmintha ( Owen ). Cla Infusoria ( Cuvier ). Rotifer a ( Ehrenb.). Poly gas tri a ( Ehrenb.). (Owen: Comp. Anatomy of the Invertebrate Animals.) II. Med. (lit.): The defect of crisis. Failure to expel morbid matter from the physical frame.