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Pyrotic

Pyrotic \Py*rot"ic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to burn, fr. ?, ?, fire: cf. F. pyrotique.] Caustic. See Caustic. -- n. (Med.) A caustic medicine.

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pyrotic

a. 1 caustic. 2 of, or having to do with heartburn. n. A caustic substance or remedy.

Usage examples of "pyrotic".

All through the trip, since blast-off and snap-out, the pyrotic had been kept in his stateroom.

The pyrotic swiveled a glance at the Blaster, then swiveled away as quickly.

The portal before which the pyrotic had stood so long, so many hours, gazing so deep into inverspace.

Not just a pyrotic, not just a mind-blocked, not just a Blaster-safe, he was something totally new.

The pyrotic let the dropshaft lower him, and he found the lifescoot some time later.

All through the trip, since blastoff and snapout, the pyrotic had been kept in his stateroom.

The pyrotic swiveled a glance at the blaster, then swiveled away as quickly.

Not just a pyrotic, not just a mind-blocked, not just a blaster-safe, he was something totally new.

Quellen belonged to one of the proscribed cults, a chaos group perhaps, or one of the rumored bands that gathered in dark corners to pray to the vicious pyrotic assassin, Flaming Bess.

The militia with rifles fell back behind those carrying rivebows and tanks of pyrotic gas.

There were elementarii whipping hard at the frightened fire elementals, but that enraged them and some in passing snapped petulant and pyrotic at their handlers and burnt them to death.

A great gush of pyrotic gas rolled out of her tongue and combusted spectacularly across the night sky.

He had sometimes suspected that the pyrotic faculty of his mind was not the only way he differed from the norm-perhaps there were others.

The portal before which the pyrotic had stood so long, so many hours, gazing so deeply into inverspace.

Not just a pyrotic, not just a mind-blocked psioid, not just a Blaster-safe, he was something totally new.