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- English Word Panslavic Definition Pertaining to all the Slavic races.
- English Word Panslavism Definition A scheme or desire to unite all the Slavic races into one confederacy.
- English Word Panslavist Definition One who favors Panslavism.
- English Word Panslavonian Definition See Panslavic.
- English Word Pansophical Definition All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders.
- English Word Pansophy Definition Universal wisdom; esp., a system of universal knowledge proposed by Comenius (1592 -- 1671), a Moravian educator.
- English Word Panspermatist Definition Alt. of Panspermist
- English Word Panspermic Definition Of or pertaining to panspermy; as, the panspermic hypothesis.
- English Word Panspermist Definition A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.
- English Word Panspermy Definition The doctrine of the widespread distribution of germs, from which under favorable circumstances bacteria, vibrios, etc., may develop.
- English Word Panspermy Definition The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation.
- English Word Panstereorama Definition A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like.
- English Word Pansy Definition A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.
- English Word Pant Definition To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
- English Word Pant Definition Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- English Word Pant Definition To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.
- English Word Pant Definition To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- English Word Pant Definition To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
- English Word Pant Definition To long for; to be eager after.
- English Word Pant Definition A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.