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palinˈdromic, a.
[f. palindrome n. + -ic.]
1. a. Of the nature of a palindrome.
1862H. B. Wheatley Anagrams 11 A singularly appropriate Greek palindromic inscription..occurs upon very many fonts in England.
b. More widely (esp. in Math. and Mus.), having a structure or composition that reads the same in both directions.
1957W. J. Reichmann Fascination of Numbers ix. 90 The most simple form of palindromic numbers is the one containing a number of identical digits. 1961Listener 23 Nov. 889/1 Schönberg makes his ternary-form prelude in effect a prelude-and-fugue, the middle section being fugal, with a powerfully melodic subject of palindromic construction, and a counter-subject that is also palindromic. 1963Ibid. 17 Jan. 140/3 This act is the only formal success, having clear-cut musical ideas worked out logically in a neat palindromic structure. 1964A. H. Beiler Recreations in Theory of Numbers xx. 228 There are an infinite number of palindromic primes. Here are a few: 101, 131, 151, 181, 313. 1972Times 1 Aug. 15/2 The sole point of this letter is the date [sc. 27.7.72] at its foot. Apart from the three rather less pleasing palindromes arising on the 27th of the 8th 9th and 11th months of this year, today's is the last palindromic date until 18.1.81. 1974Nature 9 Aug. 467/2 The central assumption of my theory is that the nucleotide sequences at the ends of eukaryote linear DNA molecules are palindromic. 1975W. Safire Before the Fall 181 Prince Norodim Sihanouk, had been deposed by Lon Nol, his palindromic Prime Minister.
2. Med. Characterized by frequent, irregular recurrences of short-lived rheumatic attacks.
1941Hench & Rosenberg in Proc. Staff Meetings Mayo Clinic XVI. 814 When an etiologic term cannot be applied, a distinctive descriptive term should be used. Such a designation we found in the term ‘palindromic rheumatism’, suggested to us by Profs. A. D. Fraser and A. L. Hench, respectively, of the departments of Ancient languages and of English literature of the University of Virginia. 1959Ann. Rheumatic Dis. XVIII. 331/2 When the histories of patients with definite rheumatoid arthritis were reviewed, a palindromic or episodic type of onset was found in 10 to 15 per cent. Ibid., Finger contractures had been a common feature during the palindromic phase. 1972Lancet 5 Aug. 269/2 Palindromic rheumatism is a condition in which an acute arthritis develops over a few hours, lasts for a day or two, and disappears the way it came.
Hence palinˈdromical a. = prec.; palinˈdromically adv., in a way that reads the same backwards as forwards.
1864Webster, Palindromical. |