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FAN"CIFUL, _full of fancy; abounding in wild images_.

FANTA"SIA, _a musical composition avowedly not governed by the ordinary musical rules_.

PHAN"TOM, _a specter, an apparation_.

PHASE, _an appearance_.

PHENOM"ENON, _anything presented to the senses by experiment or observation; an unusual appearance_.

SYC"OPHANT (Gr. n. _sukon_, a fig, and, literally, an informer against stealers of figs), _a mean flatterer_.

25. PHO"NE (f???), _a sound_.

PHONET"IC, PHON"IC _according to sound_.

EU"PHONY, _an agreeable sound of words_.

SYM"PHONY, _harmony of mingled sounds; a musical composition for a full band of instruments_.

26. PHOS (f??, f?t??), _light_.

PHOS"PHORUS (Gr. v. _pherein_, to bear), _a substance resembling wax, highly inflammable, and luminous in the dark_.

PHOS"PHATE, _a salt of phosphoric acid_.

PHOSPh.o.r.eS"CENT, _luminous in the dark_.

PHOSPHOR"IC, _relating to or obtained from phosphorus_.

PHOTOG"RAPHY. See _graphein_.

27. PHU"SIS (f?s??), _nature_.

PHYS"IC, _medicines_.

PHYS"ICAL, _natural; material; relating to the body_.

PHYSI"CIAN, _one skilled in the art of healing_.

PHYS"ICIST, _a student of nature_.

PHYS"ICS, _natural philosophy_.

PHYSIOG"NOMY (Gr. n. _gno"mon_, a judge), _the art of discerning the character of the mind from the features of the face; the particular cast of features or countenance_.

PHYSIOL"OGY. See _logos_.

METAPHYS"ICS, literally, _after or beyond physics_; hence, _the science of mind_.

METAPHYSI"CIAN, _one versed in metaphysics_.

28. POL"IS (p????), _a city_.

POLICE", _the body of officers employed to secure the good order of a city_.

POL"ICY, _the art or manner of governing a nation or conducting public affairs; prudence_.

POL"ITIC, _wise, expedient_.

POLIT"ICAL, _relating to politics_.

POLITI"CIAN, _one devoted to politics_.

POL"ITICS, _the art or science of government; struggle of parties_.

POL"ITY, _the const.i.tution of civil government_.

ACROP"OLIS (Gr. adj. _ak"ros_, high), _a citadel_.

COSMOP"OLITE (Gr. n. _kos"mos_, the world), _a citizen of the world_.

METROP"OLIS (Gr. n. _me"ter_, a mother), _the chief city of a country_.

NECROP"OLIS (Gr. adj. _nek"ros_, dead), _a burial-place; a city of the dead_.

29. RHE"O ("?e?), _I flow, I speak_.

RHET"ORIC, _the art of composition; the science of oratory_.

RHETORI"CIAN, _one skilled in rhetoric_.

RHEU"MATISM, _a disease of the limbs_ (so called because the ancients supposed it to arise from a deflection of the humors).

RES"IN, _a gum which flows from certain trees_.

CATARRH", _a discharge of fluid from the nose caused by cold in the head_.

DIARRHOE"A, _purging_.

HEM"ORRHAGE (Gr. n. _haima_, blood), _a flowing of blood_.

30. SKOP"EIN (s??pe??), _to see, to watch_.

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