diploic 
structure. Also diploetic Diploic veins, veins 
ramifying in the diploe. They arc comparatively nnmer- 
ous and of large size, with extremely 
thin walls, adherent to the hard tis- 
sue, so that they do not collapse 
when cut or torn, but remain patu- 
lous, giving rise to persistent hemor- 
rhage. 
diploid (dip'loid), ii. [< Gr. 
djavloof, double, + fMof, form.] 
In crystal., a solid belonging 
to the isometric system, with 
24 trapezoidal planes. It is 
the parallel-hemihedral form of the hcxocta- 
hedron. Also called dyakis-dodecaliedron. 
diploidion (dip-lo-id'i-on), . ; pi. diploidia 
(-a). [Gr. OITT/MOIOV, dim. of 
OCT/o/f (dt7r?.oiid-), a garment in 
two thicknesses or folds: see 
diplois.] Inanc.Gr.costume: (a) 
Apartieularformof the female 
chiton or tunic, in which the 
garment is double from the 
shoulders to the waist, the 
1632 
crown of Jerusalem, and to accept the lordship of Cyprus 
instead. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 162. 
\. victory of the North over the South, and the extraor- 
dinary clemency and good sense with which that victory 
was used had more to do with the concession of the 
franchise to householders in boroughs, than all the elo- 
quence of Mr. Gladstone and all the diplomacies of Mr. 
Disraeli. Fortnightly Kev., N. S., XXXI. 161. 
Hence 3. Dexterity or skill in managing ne- 
gotiations of any kind ; artful management with 
the view of securing advantages ; diplomatic 
tact. 4. A diplomatic body; the whole body 
of ministers at a foreign court. [Rare.] 
The foreign ministers were ordered to attend at this in- 
vesture of the directory ; for so they call the managers of 
their burlesque government. The diplomacy, who were 
a sort of envoys, were quite awe-struck with "the pride, 
uoiun. and circumstance " of this majestic senate ! 
Burke , A Regicide Peace, iv. 
5. Same as diplomatics. [Rare.] 
These [forms of ancient Anglo-Saxon letters! would prol > 
ably give ground for a near guess to one expert in Anglo- 
Saxon diplomacy. J. 
Diplopriontinae 
ambassador or a minister; in general, one 
versed in the art of diplomacy ; a diplomat. 
The talents and accomplishments of a diplomatist are 
widely different from those which qualify a politician to 
lead the House of Commons in agitated times. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., ii. 
diplomatize (di-plo'ma-tiz), T. ; pret. and pp. 
diplomatized, ppr. diplomatizing. [< L. diplo- 
ma(t-) + -ize.] I. intrans. To practise diplo- 
macy ; use diplomatic art or skill. 
Not being a scheming or a diplmnatiiring man himself, 
he did not look upon others as if they were always driving 
at something. Max Mutter, Biograph. Essays, p. 132. 
II. trans. 1. To actuate or effect by diplo- 
macy. [Bare.] 
Louis Napoleon had not long been menaced out of Mex- 
ico, and diplomatised out of Luxemburg, when, from his 
inveterate habit ot putting his finger into every mall's pie, 
he suddenly found himself in possession of Borne. 
Lowe, Bismarck, I. 479. 
2. To confer a diploma upon. Tliackeray. 
Also spelled diplomatise. 
to r 
outer fold hanging loose, like ^ , t (dip , 16 _ mat) . 
a sort of sleeveless mantle. u a ^ r. , 
(6) More rarely, a separate 
garment so disposed over the 
chiton as to give the whole ar- 
rangement the appearance of 
a single piece. 
Her [Demeter's] chiton is of a thick 
material, forming deep folds, and 
having over her breast a dipluidion, 
which throws out strong and simple 
inai 
The study or science of 
, [Also written diplo- speak: see -ology.'] T 
mate; = D. diplomaat = G. Dan. Sw. diplomat, diplomatics. [Rare.] 
< F. diplomate = Pg. diplomata, < NL. as if *di- certain it is that many of the young docents whose spe- 
ptomata, one provided with letters of authority, cialty is Semitic philology, or Hebrew archBeology,_ or 
Diploidi 
From a metoi 
the temple of Zeus at 
Olympia 
< L. diploma(t-), diploma: see diploma.'] One 
who is employed or skilled in diplomacy; a 
diplomatist. 
Unless the diplomats of Europe are strangely misin- 
formed, general political differences have not come, and 
are not likely to come, just at present under discussion. ., -, --- "-VKTT s /-. 
Saturday Ker. DiplonCUTa (dip-lo-nu'ra), n. pi. [NL., < Or. 
A7&Jfurray, Greek Sculpture, II. 82. diplomate (dip'lo-mat), r. t. ; pret. and pp. dmvWof, double, + vevpoy, nerve, sinew.] In 
ope of diplo'is (dip'lo-is), n. [Gr. St- diplomated, ppr. diplomating. [< diploma + 
-ate 2 .] To invest with a title or privilege by a 
diploma; diploma. [Rare.] 
Church history, or diplomatolofjy, have no deep interest 
in or little knowledge of the distinctively Christian doc- 
trines. G. S. Hall, German Culture, p. 14. 
Diplomprpha (dip-lo-m6r'fa), n. pi. [NL., < 
Gr. di7r/<ioc, double, '+ fiop<t>'fj, form.] A group 
of hydrozoans: a synonym of Calyptoblastea^ 
He was diplomated doctor of divinity in 1660. 
A. Wood, Athenre Oxon. 
[< diplomacy 
Same as diplomatic. 
/.oic, a garment in two thick- 
nesses or folds, < <!<7r/oof, dou- 
ble: see diploe.] In anc. dr. costume, same as 
diploidion. 
A woman clothed in a sleeveless talaric chiton with diplomatial (dip-16-ma'shial), a. 
diplo'is. B. V. Head, Historia Numorum, p. 177. 
Diplolepariae (dip"lo-le-pa'ri-e), n. pi. [NL., L _. 
irreg. < Diplolepis, < Gr. oivMof, double, + AejnY, diplomatic (dip-k>-mat'ik), 
sects, 
fication, 
of the modern family Cynipida:. 
diploma (di-plo'rna), n. [= F. diploma = Sp. 
Pg. It. diploma ="D. diploma = G. Dan. Sw. 
diplom, < L. diploma, < Gr. cKirAi)/j(r-), a paper 
folded double, a letter of recommendation or 
introduction, later a letter of license or privi- 
lege granted by a person in authority, < 3nrtoin>, 
double, < rfOT/.ouf, double: see diploe.'] 1. Origi- 
nally, a letter or other composition written on 
paper or parchment and folded. Hence 2. 
Any letter, literary muniment, or public docu- 
ment. See diplomatics. 3. In modem use, a 
letter or writing, usually under seal and signed 
by competent authority, conferring some honor, 
privilege, or power, as that given by a college 
in evidence of a degree, or authorizing a phy- 
sician to practise his profession, and the like. 
The granting of diplomas by universities or other learned 
bodies proceeds on the supposition that the public require 
some assistance to their judgment in the choice of pro- 
fessional services, and that such an official scrutiny into the 
qualifications of practitioners is a useful security against 
and ji. [= F. 
ma(t-), diploma: see diplorna.] I. <i. 1. Per- 
taining to diplomas or diplomatics. 
Diplomatic science, the knowledge of which will enable 
us to form a proper judgmentof the age and authenticity J^l!,.;,..!., fdir)4 
of manuscripts, chords, records, and other monuments of CUplOpiaCUia^ulp 10 JJ. 
antiquity. Astle, Orig. and Prog, of Writing, Int. 
2. Pertaining to or of the nature of diplomacy ; 
concerned with the management of interna- 
tional relations : as, a diplomatic agent. 
The diplomatic activity of Henry II. throughout hi.s 
reign was enormous ; all nations of Europe came by en- 
voys to his court, and his ministers . . . ran about from 
one end of Europe to another. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 127. 
Several of our earlier and best Secretaries of State had 
had the benefit of personal experience in the diplomatic 
Grant's system of classification, a group of an- 
nelids or worms. 
Diplophysa (dip-ig-fi'sa), . [NL., < Gr. <i<- 
TT'OOC, double, + cjvaa, a bellows.] 1. A sup- 
posed genus of oceanic hydroids, of the order 
Calycophora, being detached diphyzooids of 
Spliceronectes, as D. inermis from Splia-ronectes 
f/racilis. Gegenlaur, 1853. [Not in use.] 2. 
A genus of fishes. 
diplopia (di-plo'pi-a), n. [NL., < Gr. <W/loof, 
double, + ui? (o~-), eye.] In patliol., the mor- 
bid condition of vision in which a single object 
appears double. Also diplopy. 
diplopic (di-plop'ik), a. [< diplopia + -ic.] 
Seeing double ; affected with diplopia; caused 
by diplopia, as a double visual image, 
liploplacula (dip-16-plak'u-lii), . ; pi. diplopla- 
culte (-le). [NL., < Gr. SmMef. double, + NL. 
placula, q. v.] In embryol., a placula composed 
of two layers of cells resulting from transverse 
fission following vertical fission. 
In this way the primitive differentiation of the placula 
into two layers is established in what we have designated 
the diploplacula. 
Hyatt, Proc. Brit. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1884, XXIII. 89. 
diploplacular (dip-lo-plak'u-la,r), a. [< diplo- 
placula + -a)- 3 .] Two-layered', as a germ; per- 
taining to or having the character of a diplo- 
service abroad. K. Schmjler, American Diplomacy, p. 8. placula. 
3. Skilled in the art of diplomacy; artful in dlploplaculate (dip-lo-plak'u-lat), a. \<diplo- 
negotiation i 
in conduct.- 
body ( 
the 
Si 
or capital, including the ambassador, minister, or charg6 
d'affaires, the secretaries of legation, the military and na- 
val attaches, etc. 
II. n. A minister, an official agent, or an 
envoy to a foreign court; a diplomat. 
diplomatical (dip-lo-mat'i-kal), a. Same as 
diplomatic. 
Doggeries never so diplomaed, bepuffed, gas-hghted, ^ lomatica j ly(d i p _lo. ma t'i-kal-i), adv. 1. Ac- 
cording to the rules or art of diplomacy. 
i imposture or incompetently of mere pretenders to skill. 
'ir G. C. Lewis, Authority in Matters of Opinion, ix. 17. 
diploma (di-plo'ma), v. t. [< diploma, n.] To 
furnish with a diploma ; certify by a diploma. 
[Rare.] 
continue doggeries. 
quite courteous. 
Carlyle. 
diplomacy (di-plo'ma-si), n. ; pi. diplomacies 
(-siz). [= D. diplomatic = G. diplomatic = Dan. 
Sw. diplomati, < F. diplomatic (t pron. s) = Sp. 
Pg. diplomacia = It. diplomazia, < L. as if *diplo- 
matia, diplomacy, < diploma(t-), a diploma: see 
diploma.] 1. The science of the forms, ceremo- P*B* of view of diplomatics 
uies, and methods to be observed in conducting 
the actual intercourse of one state with ano- 
ther, through authorized agents, on the basis 
of international law; the art of conducting diplomatics (dip-lo-mat'iks), n 
Same as Dipnoi. 
iiplopod (dip'lo-pod), a. and n. _. 
footed : an epithet applied to the chilognathous 
Myriapoda or Diplopoda, which have two pairs 
of limbs on each segment of the body. 
It [a new form of Gregarinidtv] was found in the diges- 
tive tube of Glomeris, one of the diplopod myriopods, and 
has been named Cnemidospora lutea. 
Smithsonian Report, 1883, Zoology. 
Write diplomatically; even in declaring war men are TJ n () ne o f th e Diplopoda or CltilognatJia. 
"""""' '""" """" lt TI """ Diplopoda (di-plop'6-dS), . pi. [Nt., < Gr. 
t _i /_ j 1.1 _ _i_ '.' _ '/ c\ T* f~~t 1 rpi,,. 
Lowe, Bismarck, II. 55S. 
2. Artfully ; with or by good management. 
3. With reference to diplomatics; from the 
The indiction-numher in n. 16 is diplomatically uncer- 
tain, and so of no independent value. 
Amer. Jour. Pliilol., VI. 192. 
, double, + iroi'f (-o(t-) = E. foot.} The 
millepeds as an order of myriapods ; the Chilog- 
natlta (which see) : so called from the doubling 
in number of the legs, most of the segments 
of the body having two pairs : contrasted with 
Chilopoda. 
[PI. of diplo- diplopodous (di-plop'o-dus), a. [As diplopod 
such intercourse, as in negotiating and drafting matic: see -ics.~] The science of diplomas, or + -ous.] Diplopod ; chilognathous. 
treaties, representing the interests of a state of ancient writings, literary and public docu- Diploprion (di-plop'ri-on), n. [NL., < Gr. 01- 
or its subjects at a foreign court, etc. ments, letters, decrees, charters, codicils, etc., TTV.OOI;, double, + TT/MUV, a saw.] A genus of ser- 
As diplomacy was in its beginnings, so it lasted for a w t hich h f s for ^ object_ to decipher such in- rano id fishes with serrature to the preopercu- 
long time ; the' ambassador was the man who was sent to Struments, or to ascertain their authenticity. l um as we ll as to the suboperculum, typical 
lie abroad for the good of his country. their date, signatures, etc. of the subfamily Diploprion tina'. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 235. diplomatism (di-plo'ma-tizm), n. [< L. diplo- Diplopriontinaj (di-plop"ri-on-ti'ne), . p>. 
2. The act or practice of negotiation or official 'ina(t-) + -ism.'] Diplomatic action or practice ; [NL., < Di}ilo/irioii(t-) + -hi(c.] Asubfamilyof 
intercourse, as between independent powers; something characteristic of diplomacy. [Rare.] ,S'frra(Vte, represented by the genus Diploprion , 
diplomatic procedure in general; the transac- diplomatist (di-pl6'ma-tist),. [<li.aiploma(t-) w jth distinct spinous and soft dorsals and two 
tion of international business : as, the history + -ist; = F. diplomatiste.] A person officially anal spines. The only known species, Diploprion M- 
of European diplomacy. [Rare in the plural.] employed in international intercourse, as an jasciatus, ranges from tiie Japanese to the Indian sea. 
