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Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.

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  • PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
    Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
  • PERIODONTAL
    Surrounding the teeth.
  • BEFORETIME
    Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
  • PERIOD
    One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end;
  • PERIODICALLY
    In a periodical manner.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • PERIODIDE
    An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.
  • BEFOREHAND
    1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
  • PREHISTORIC
    Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
  • WRITTEN
    p. p. of Write, v.
  • PERIODICALNESS
    Periodicity.
  • HISTORY
    history, information, inquiry, fr. 'istwr, "istwr, knowing, learned, 1. A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record;
  • PERIODOSCOPE
    A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women. Dunglison.
  • PERIODATE
    A salt of periodic acid.
  • PERIODICITY
    The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. Henfrey.
  • BEFORE
    1. In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton. 2. Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
  • PERIODICAL
    A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals.
  • PERIODICALIST
    One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.
  • PERIODIC
    Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO
  • ANTIPERIODIC
    A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
  • THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
    Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
  • ALABAMA PERIOD
    A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
  • CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
  • NIAGARA PERIOD
    A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • HEREINBEFORE
    In the preceding part of this .
  • TRENTON PERIOD
    A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.
  • UNWRITTEN
    1. Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements. 2. Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper. Unwritten doctrines , such doctrines as have been handed down by word of mouth; oral or traditional doctrines.

 

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