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Hypocrisy

HYPOC'RISY, noun [Latin hypocrisis; Gr. simulation; to feign; to separate, discern or judge.]

1. Simulation; a feigning to be what one is not; or dissimulation, a concealment of one's real character or motives. More generally, hypocrisy is simulation, or the assuming of a false appearance of virtue or religion; a deceitful show of a good character, in morals or religion; a counterfeiting of religion.

Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy Luke 12:1.

2. Simulation; deceitful appearance; false pretence.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Hypocrite

HYP'OCRITE, noun

1. One who feigns to be what he is not; one who has the form of godliness without the power, or who assumes an appearance of piety and virtue, when he is destitute of true religion.

And the hypocrite's hope shall perish. Job 8:1.

2. A dissembler; one who assumes a false appearance.

Fair hypocrite you seek to cheat in vain.

Hypocritic

HYPOCRIT'IC

HYPOCRIT'ICAL, adjective Simulating; counterfeiting a religions character; assuming a false and deceitful appearance; applied to persons.

1. Dissembling; concealing one's real character or motives.

2. Proceeding from hypocrisy, or marking hypocrisy; as a hypocritical face or look.

Hypocritical

HYPOCRIT'ICAL, a. Simulating; counterfeiting a religions character; assuming a false and deceitful appearance; applied to persons. 1. Dissembling; concealing one's real character or motives.2. Proceeding from hypocrisy, or marking hypocrisy; as a hypocritical face or look.

Hypocritically

HYPOCRIT'ICALLY, adverb With simulation; with a false appearance of what is good; falsely; without sincerity.

Hypogastric

HYPOGAS'TRIC, adjective [Gr. under, and the belly.]

1. Relating to the hypogastrium, or middle part of the lower region of the belly.

2. An appellation given to the internal branch of the iliac artery.

Hypogastrocele

HYPOGAS'TROCELE, noun [Gr. tumor.] A hernia or rupture of the lower belly.

Hypogeum

HYPOGE'UM, noun [Gr. under, and the earth.] A name given by ancient architects to all the parts of a building which were under ground, as the cellar, etc.

Hypogynous

HYPOGYNOUS, adjective [Gr. under, and a female.] A term applied to plants that have their corols and stamens inserted under the pistil.

Hypophosphite

HYPOPHOS'PHITE, noun A compound of hypophosphorous acid and a salifiable base.

Hypophosphorous

HYPOPHOS'PHOROUS, noun [Gr. phosphorus.] The hypophosphorous acid contains less oxygen than the phosphorous, and is obtained from the phosphuret of baryte. It is a liquid which may be concentrated by evaporation, till it becomes viscid. It has a very sour taste, reddens vegetable blues, and does not crystalize.

Hypostasis

HYPOS'TASIS

HYPOS'TASY, noun [Latin hypostasis; Gr. to stand.] Properly, subsistence or substance. Hence it is used to denote distinct substance, or subsistence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in the Godhead, called by the Greek christians, three hypostases. The Latins more generally used persona to express the sense of hypostasis and this is the modern practice. We say, the Godhead consists of three persons.

Hypostatic

HYPOSTAT'IC

HYPOSTAT'ICAL , adjective Relating to hypostasis; constitutive.

Let our Carneades warn men not to subscribe to the grand doctrine of the chimists, touching their three hypostatical principles, till they have a little examined it.

1. Personal, or distinctly personal; or constituting a distinct substance.

Hypostatical

HYPOSTAT'ICAL , a. Relating to hypostasis; constitutive. Let our Carneades warn men not to subscribe to the grand doctrine of the chimists, touching their three hypostatical principles, till they have a little examined it.1. Personal, or distinctly personal; or constituting a distinct substance.

Hyposulphate

HYPOSUL'PHATE, noun A compound of hyposulphuric acid and a base.

Hyposulphite

HYPOSUL'PHITE, noun A compound of hyposulphurous acid and a salifiable base.

Hyposulphuric

HYPOSUL'PHURIC, adjective hyposulphuric acid, is an acid combination of sulphur and oxygen, intermediate between sulphurous and sulphuric acid.

Hyposulphurous

HYPOSUL'PHUROUS, adjective hyposulphurous acid is an acid containing less oxygen than sulphurous acid. This acid is known only in combination with salifiable bases.

Hypotenuse

HYPOT'ENUSE, noun [Gr. to subtend.] In geometry, the subtense or longest side of a right-angled triangle, or the line that subtends the right angle.

Hypothecate

HYPOTH'ECATE, verb transitive [Latin hypotheca, a pledge; Gr. to put under, to suppose.]

1. To pledge, and properly to pledge the keel of a ship, that is, the ship itself, as security for the repayment of money borrowed to carry on a voyage. In this case the lender hazards the loss of his money by the loss of the ship, but if the ship returns safe, he received his principal, with the premium or interest agreed on, though it may exceed the legal rate of interest.

2. To pledge, as goods.

Hypothecated

HYPOTH'ECATED, participle passive Pledged, as security for money borrowed.

Hypothecating

HYPOTH'ECATING, participle present tense Pledging as security.

Hypothecation

HYPOTHECA'TION, noun The act of pledging, as a ship or goods, for the repayment of money borrowed to carry on a voyage; otherwise called bottomry.

Hypothecator

HYPOTH'ECATOR, noun One who pledges a ship or other property, as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

Hypothesis

HYPOTH'ESIS, noun [Latin from Gr. a supposition; to suppose.]

1. A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument.

2. A system or theory imagined or assumed to account for what is not understood.

Hypothetic

HYPOTHET'IC

HYPOTHET'ICAL, adjective Including a supposition; conditional; assumed without proof for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof.

Hypothetically

HYPOTHET'ICALLY, adverb By way of supposition; conditionally.

Hyrse

HYRSE, noun hirs. Millet.

Hyrst

HYRST, noun A wood. [See Hurst.]

Hyson

HY'SON, noun A species of green tea from China.

Hysop

HY'SOP

HYSSOP, noun hy'sop. [Latin hyssopus; Gr. It would be well to write this word hysop ] A plant or genus of plants, one species of which is cultivated for use. The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm pungent taste. Hyssop was much used by the Jews in purification.

Hyssop

HYSSOP, n. hy'sop. [L. hyssopus; Gr. It would be well to write this word hysop.] A plant or genus of plants, one species of which is cultivated for use. The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm pungent taste. Hyssop was much used by the Jews in purification.

Hysteric

HYSTER'IC

HYSTER'ICAL, adjective [Gr. from the womb.] Disordered in the region of the womb; troubled with fits or nervous affections.

Hysterics

HYSTER'ICS, noun A disease of women, proceeding from the womb, and characterized by fits or spasmodic affections of the nervous system.

A spasmodic disease of the primae viae, attended with the sensation of a ball rolling about the abdomen, stomach and throat.

Hysterocele

HYS'TEROCELE, noun [Gr. the womb, and a tumor.] A species of hernia, caused by a displacement of the womb. A rupture containing the uterus.

HYS'TERON PROT'ERON, noun [Gr. last, and first.] A rhetorical figure, when that is said last which was done first.

Hysterotomy

HYSTEROT'OMY, noun [Gr. the uterus, and a cutting.] In surgery, the Cesarean section; the operation of cutting into the uterus for taking out a fetus, which cannot be excluded by the usual means.

Hythe

HYTHE, noun A port. [See Hithe.]