Part 3063

<blockquote>In the midst of this Babel of <b>dialects</b> there suddenly appeared a standard English language. <i>Earle.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>[Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native <b>dialect</b>. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Language; idiom; tongue; speech; phraseology. See <er>Language</er>, and <er>Idiom</er>.</syn>

<h1>Dialectal</h1> <Xpage=405>

<hw>Di`a*lec"tal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating to a dialect; dialectical; <as>as, a <ex>dialectical</ex> variant</as>.</def>

<h1>Dialectic</h1> <Xpage=405>

<hw>Di`a*lec"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Dialectics</er>.</def>

<blockquote>Plato placed his <b>dialectic</b> above all sciences. <i>Liddell & Scott.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dialectic, Dialectical</h1> <Xpage=405>

<hw><hw>Di`a*lec"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Di`a*lec"tic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dialecticus</ets>, Gr. <?/: cf. F. <ets>dialectique</ets>. See <er>Dialect</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects.</def>

<i>Earle.</i>

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<h1>Dialectically</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*lec"tic*al*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a dialectical manner.</def>

<h1>Dialectician</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*lec*ti"cian</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>dialecticien</ets>.]</ety> <def>One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.</def>

<h1>Dialectics</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*lec"tics</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dialectica</ets> (sc. <ets>ars</ets>), Gr. <?/ (sc. <?/): cf. F. <ets>dialectique</ets>.]</ety> <def>That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Dialectics</i> was defined by Aristotle to be the method of arguing with probability on any given problem, and of defending a tenet without inconsistency. By Plato, it was used in the following senses: <p><b>1.</b> Discussion by dialogue as a method of scientific investigation. <p><b>2.</b> The method of investigating the truth by analysis. <p><b>3.</b> The science of ideas or of the nature and laws of being -- higher metaphysics. By Kant, it was employed to signify the logic of appearances or illusions, whether these arise from accident or error, or from those necessary limitations which, according to this philosopher, originate in the constitution of the human intellect.</note>

<h1>Dialectology</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*lec*tol"o*gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Dialect</ets> + <ets>-logy</ets>.]</ety> <def>That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.</def>

<i>Beck.</i>

<h1>Dialector</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*lec"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One skilled in dialectics.</def>

<h1>Dialing</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di"al*ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>