MERCURIAL
\mɜːkjˈʊɹɪəl], \mɜːkjˈʊɹɪəl], \m_ɜː_k_j_ˈʊ_ɹ_ɪ__ə_l]\
Definitions of MERCURIAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
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relating to or containing or caused by mercury; "mercurial preparations"; "mercurial sore mouth"
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relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury; "more than Mercurial thievishness"
By Princeton University
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liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
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relating to or containing or caused by mercury; "mercurial preparations"; "mercurial sore mouth"
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relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury; "more than Mercurial thievishness"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.
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Of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. See Mercury, 2.
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Having the form or image of Mercury; - applied to ancient guideposts.
By Oddity Software
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Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.
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Of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. See Mercury, 2.
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Having the form or image of Mercury; - applied to ancient guideposts.
By Noah Webster.
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Active; fickle; light-hearted; as, mercurial youth; pertaining to, made of, or caused by, mercury, or quicksilver.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Having the qualities said to belong to the god Mercury: active: sprightly: containing or consisting of mercury.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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