| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
axiomatic or axiomatical (ˌæksɪəˈmætɪk) ![]() | |
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| 1. | relating to or resembling an axiom; self-evident |
| 2. | containing maxims; aphoristic |
| 3. | Compare natural deduction (of a logical system) consisting of a set of axioms from which theorems are derived by transformation rules |
| axiomatical or axiomatical | |
| —adj | |
| axio'matically or axiomatical | |
| —adv | |