Defn: The condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3. [Recent] Carlyle. On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, — this is Philistinism. M. Arnold.
PHILLIPSITE Phil"lips*ite, n. Etym: [So named after John Phillips, an English mineralogist.] (Min.) (a) A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; — called also christianite.
PHILLYGENIN
Phil*lyg"e*nin, n. Etym: [Phillyrin + -gen + -in.] (Chem.)
Defn: A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phillyrin.
PHILLYREA
Phil*lyr"e*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the
Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.
PHILLYRIN
Phil"ly*rin, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A glucoside extracted from Phillyrea as a bitter white crystalline substance. It is sometimes used as a febrifuge.
PHILO-
Philo-.
Defn: A combining form from Gr. fi`los loving, fond of, attached to; as, philosophy, philotechnic.