metagnathous (metagnathus)

[ in and beyond the sphere of sense. [See II. n. One who believes in the reality of an absolute being transcending knowledge. [Recent.] The e ayist would substitute the title of Met agnostics instead of Agnostics. J. A. Skilton , in Evolution, p. 227. met agnosticism (met-ag-nos'ti-sizm), n. [ . ] The philosophical doctrine that there is a positive (not merely negative) consciousne of the Absolute: distinguished from agnosticism regarded as maintaining the opposite ground. [Recent.] met agnostics (met-ag-nos'tiks), n. [ μετά , beyond, + γνωστικός , knowing ( γνῶσις , knowledge): see gnostic and -ics .] Knowledge transcending ordinary knowledge; metaphysics. Krug . meta gram mat ism (met-a-gram'a-tizm), n. [ μετά , over, + γράμμα(τ-), a letter: see gram2 .] The transposition of the letters of a name so as to form a word or words having some reference to the person named; anagrammatism. Camden . metagraphy (me-tag'ra-fi), n. [ His belief in the system of metagraphy as applied to non European alphabets. Athenœum , No. 3151, p. 340. metairie (me-ta'rē), n. [ métairie , η. [ gelatin.] In photog., a substance which has been used as a preservative in a certain dry collodion proce , consisting of a strong solution of gelatin boiled and cooled several times till it ceases to gelatinize and remains fluid. see