Catechise – Cension

Catechise

CATECHISE, verb transitive

1. To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections.

2. To question; to interrogate; to examine or try by questions, and sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting answers from a person, which condemn his own conduct.

3. Appropriately, to ask questions concerning the doctrines of the Christian religion; to interrogate pupils and give instruction in the principles of religion.

Catechised

CATECHISED, participle passive Instructed.

Catechiser

CATECHISER, noun One who catechises; one who instructs by question and answer, and particularly in the rudiments of the Christian religion.

Catechising

CATECHISING, participle present tense Instructing in rudiments or principles.

Catechism

CATECHISM, noun

1. A form of instruction by means of questions and answers, particularly in the principles of religion.

2. An elementary book containing a summary of principles in any science or art, but appropriately in religion, reduced to the form of questions and answers, and sometimes with notes, explanations, and references to authorities.

Catechist

CATECHIST, noun One who instructs viva voice, or by question and answer; a catechiser; one appointed by the church to instruct in the principles of religion.

Catechistic

CATECHISTIC,

CATECHISTICAL, adjective Pertaining to a catechist, or catechism.

Catechistical

CATECHISTICAL, a. Pertaining to a catechist, or catechism.

Catechu

CATECHU, noun Terra Japonica, a dry extract, or brown astringent substance, obtained by decoction and evaporation from a species of Mimosa in India. It consists chiefly of tannin.

Catechumen

CATECHUMEN, noun One who is in the first rudiments of Christianity; one who is receiving instruction and preparing himself for baptism. These were anciently the children of believing parents, or pagans not fully initiated in the principles of the Christian religion. They were admitted to this state by the imposition of hands, and the sign of the cross.

Catechumenical

CATECHUMENICAL, adjective Belonging to catechumens.

Catechumenist

CATECHUMENIST, noun A catechumen.

Categorical

CATEGORICAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to a category.

2. Absolute; positive; express; not relative or hypothetical; as a categorical proposition, syllogism or answer.

Category

CATEGORY, noun In logic, a series or order of all the predicates or attributes contained under a genus. The school philosophers distributed all the objects of our thoughts and ideas into genera or classes. Aristotle made ten categories, viz. Substance, quantity, quality, relation, action, passion, time, place, situation and habit.

Catenarian

CATENARIAN,

CATENARY, adjective Relating to a chain; like a chain. The catenarian curve, in geometry, is formed by a rope or chain hanging freely between two points of suspension, whether the points are horizontal or not.

Catenate

CATENATE, verb transitive To chain, or rather to connect in a series of links or ties.

Catenation

CATENATION, noun Connection of links, union of parts, as in a chain; regular connection. [See Concatenation.]

Cater

CATER, verb intransitive To provide food; to buy or procure provisions; followed by for; as, to cater for the sparrow.

CATER, noun A provider. [See Caterer.]

CATER, noun The four of cards or dice; so written for Fr. quatre.

Cater-Cousin

CATER-COUSIN, noun A quaere-cousin, a remote relation.

Caterer

CATERER, noun A provider, buyer or purveyor of provision.

Cateress

CATERESS, noun A woman who caters; a female provider of food.

Caterpillar

CATERPILLAR, noun The colored and often hairy larva of the lepidopterous insects. This term is also applied to the larvas of other insects, such as the Tenthredo, or saw-fly; but is more generally confined to the lepidopters. Caterpillars are produced immediately from the egg; they are furnished with several pairs of feet, and have the shape and appearance of a worm. They contain the embryo of the perfect insect, inclosed within a muscular envelop, which is thrown off, when the insect enters the nymph or chrysalis state, in which it remains for sometime as if inanimate. It then throws off its last envelop, and emerges a perfect insect. Caterpillars generally feed on leaves or succulent vegetables, and are sometimes very destructive.

Caterpillar-Eater

CATERPILLAR-EATER, noun A worm bred in the body of a caterpillar, which eats it.

Caterwaul

CATERWAUL, verb intransitive To cry or wall, as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh offensive noise.

Caterwauling

CATERWAULING, noun The cry of cats; a harsh disagreeable noise or cry.

Cates

CATES, noun Delicious food or viands; dainties.

Cath-Arist

CATH-ARIST, noun One who pretends to more purity than others possess.

Cathartic

CATHARTIC,

CATHARTICAL, adjective Purging; cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

CATHARTIC, noun A medicine that promotes alvine discharges, and thus cleanses the stomach and bowels; a purge; a purgative.

Cathartical

CATHARTICAL, a. Purging; cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

Catharticalness

CATHARTICALNESS, noun The quality of promoting discharges from the bowels.

Cathedral

CATHEDRAL, noun The see or seat of a bishop; the principal church in a diocese.

CATHEDRAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to the church which is the bishops seat, or head church of a diocese; containing the see of a bishop; as a cathedral church; cathedral service.

2. Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks.

Cathedrated

CATHEDRATED, adjective Relating to the authority of the chair or office of a teacher.

Catheter

CATHETER, noun In surgery, a tubular instrument, usually made of silver, to be introduced into the bladder, to draw off the urine when the natural discharge is suppressed; also, a sound to search for the stone, or a bougie made of silver or elastic gum.

Cathetus

CATHETUS noun In geometry, a line or radius, falling perpendicularly on another line or surface; as the two sides of a right-angled triangle.

CATHETUS of incidence, in catoptries, is a right line drawn from a point of the object, perpendicular to the reflecting line.

CATHETUS of reflection, or of the eye, a right line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the reflecting plane.

CATHETUS of obliquation, a right line drawn perpendicular to the speculum, in the point of incidence or reflection.

In architecture, a cathetus is a perpendicular line, supposed to pass through the middle of a cylindrical body.

Catholic

CATHOLIC, adjective

1. Universal or general; as the catholic church. Originally this epithet was given to the Christian church in general, but is now appropriated to the Romish church, and in strictness there is no catholic church, or universal Christian communion. The epithet is sometimes set in opposition to heretic, sectary or schismatic.

2. Liberal; not narrow minded, partial or bigoted; as a catholic man.

3. Liberal; as catholic principles.

CATHOLIC epistles, the epistles of the apostles which are addressed to all the faithful, and not to a particular church.

CATHOLIC, noun A papist.

Catholicize

CATHOLICIZE, verb intransitive To become a catholic.

Catholicly

CATHOLICLY, adverb Generally; in a catholic manner.

Catholicness

CATHOLICNESS, noun Universality.

Catholicon

CATHOLICON, noun A remedy for all diseases; a universal remedy; a remedy supposed to be efficacious in purging away all humors; a panacea; a kind of soft purgative electuary so called.

Catilinism

CATILINISM, noun The practices of Catiline, the Roman conspirator; conspiracy.

Catkin

CATKIN, noun In botany, a species of calyx or rather of inflorescence, from a common chaffy gemmaceous receptacle, or consisting of many chaffy scales ranged along a stalk, slender as a thread, which is the common receptacle, as in hazle, birch, oak, willow, poplar, etc.; so called from its resemblance to a cats tail.

Catling

CATLING, noun

1. A dismembering knife, used by surgeons.

2. The down or moss growing about walnut trees, resembling the hair of a cat.

3. Catgut.

Catonian

CATONIAN, adjective Pertaining to or resembling Cato, the Roman, who was remarkable for his severity of manners; grave; severe; inflexible.

Catopter

CATOPTER,

CATOPTRIC,

CATOPTRICAL, adjective [See Catoptrics.] Relating to catoptries, or vision by reflection.

Catoptric

CATOPTRIC,

Catoptrical

CATOPTRICAL, a. [See Catoptrics.] Relating to catoptries, or vision by reflection.

Catoptrics

CATOPTRICS, noun That part of optics which explains the properties of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies.

Catoptromancy

CATOPTROMANCY, noun A species of divination among the ancients, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.

Catoptron

CATOPTRON, noun An optical glass or instrument.

Cats-Eye

CATS-EYE, noun Sun-stone, a subspecies of quartz, called in Latin oculus cati or onycopalus, from its white zones or rings like onyx, and its variable colors like opal. It is very hard and semitransparent, and from certain points exhibits a yellowish radiation, or chatoyant appearance, somewhat resembling a cats eye.

Cats-Foot

CATS-FOOT, noun A plant of the genus Glechoma, ground ivy, or gill.

Cats-Head

CATS-HEAD, noun A kind of apple.

Cats-Paw

CATS-PAW, noun

1. Among seamen, a light air perceived, in a calm, by a rippling of the surface of the water; also, a particular turn in the bight of a rope, made to hook a tackle on.

2. A dupe; the instrument which another uses.

Catsilver

CATSILVER, noun A fossil, a species of mica.

Catsup

CATSUP, noun A liquor extracted from mushrooms, used as a sauce.

Cattery

CATTERY, noun The place where provisions are deposited.

Cattle

CATTLE, noun

1. Beasts or quadrupeds in general, serving for tillage, or other labor, and for food to man. In its primary sense, the word includes camels, horses, asses, all the varieties of domesticated horned beasts or the bovine genus, sheep of all kinds and goats, and perhaps swine. In this general sense, it is constantly used in the scriptures. See Job 1:3. Hence it would appear that the word properly signifies possessions, goods. But whether from a word originally signifying a beast, for in early ages beasts constituted the chief part of a mans property, or from a root signifying to get or possess. This word is restricted to domestic beasts; but in England it includes horses, which it ordinarily does not, in the United States, at least not in New-England.

2. In the United States, cattle in common usage, signifies only beasts of the bovine genus, oxen, bulls, cows and their young. In the laws respecting domestic beasts, horses, sheep, asses, mules and swine are distinguished from cattle or neat cattle Thus the law in Connecticut, requiring that all the owners of any cattle sheep or swine, shall ear-mark or brand all their cattle sheep and swine, does not extend to horses. Yet it is probable that a law, giving damages for a trespass committed by cattle breaking into an inclosure, would be adjudged to include horses.

In Great Britain, beasts are distinguished into black cattle including bulls, oxen, cows and their young; and small cattle including sheep of all kinds and goats.

3. In reproach, human beings are called cattle

Caucasean

CAUCASEAN, adjective Pertaining to Mount Caucasus in Asia.

Caucasian

CAUCASIAN,

CAUCUS, noun A word used in America to denote a meeting of citizens to agree upon candidates to be proposed for election to offices, or to concert measures for supporting a party. The origin of the word is not ascertained.

Caucus

CAUCUS, n. A word used in America to denote a meeting of citizens to agree upon candidates to be proposed for election to offices, or to concert measures for supporting a party. The origin of the word is not ascertained.

Caudal

CAUDAL, adjective Pertaining to a tail; or to the thread which terminates the seed of a plant.

Caudate

CAUDATE,

CAUDATED,

CAUDEX, noun In botany, the stem of a tree. Linne uses the word for the stock which proceeds from a seed, one part ascending and forming the body above ground, the other descending and putting forth roots.

Caudex

CAUDEX, n. In botany, the stem of a tree. Linne uses the word for the stock which proceeds from a seed, one part ascending and forming the body above ground, the other descending and putting forth roots.

Caudle

CAUDLE, noun A kind of warm broth, a mixture of wine and other ingredients prepared for the sick.

CAUDLE, verb transitive To make or prepare caudle or to dress with caudle

Cauf

CAUF, noun A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.

Caught

CAUGHT, preterit tense and participle passive of catch, pronounced caut.

Cauk

CAUK,

CAUKY, adjective Pertaining to cauk; like cauk

Cauky

CAUKY, a. Pertaining to cauk; like cauk.

Caul

CAUL, noun

1. In anatomy, a membrane in the abdomen, covering the greatest part of the lower intestines, called from its structure, reticuluim, a net, but more generally, the omentum; also, a little membrane sometimes encompassing the head of a child when born.

2. A kind of net in which females inclose their hair; the hinder part of a cap.

3. Any kind of net.

Caulescent

CAULESCENT, adjective In botany, having a stem different from that which produces the flower; as a caulescent plant. Linne applies this term to the root also, as in cabbage and turnep.

Cauliferous

CAULIFEROUS, adjective In botany, having a stem or stalk.

Cauliflower

CAULIFLOWER, noun A variety of Brassica or cabbage, well known and much esteemed.

Cauliform

CAULIFORM, adjective Having the form of a stalk or of stems.

Cauline

CAULINE, adjective In botany, growing immediately on the stem, without the intervention of branches; as a cauline leaf, bulb, peduncle or scape.

Caulk

CAULK, [See Calk.]

Cauponate

CAUPONATE, verb intransitive To keep a victualling house.

Cauponise

CAUPONISE, verb transitive To sell wine or victuals.

Causable

CAUSABLE, adjective [See Cause.] That may be caused, produced or effected.

Causal

CAUSAL, adjective [See Cause.] Relating to a cause or causes; implying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause.

CAUSAL propositions are where two propositions are joined by causal words, as that or because.

CAUSAL, noun In grammar, a word that expresses a cause, or introduces the reason.

Causality

CAUSALITY, noun The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.

Causally

CAUSALLY, adverb According to the order or series of causes.

Causalty

CAUSALTY, noun Among miners, the lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off by washing.

Causation

CAUSATION, noun The act of causing or producing; the act or agency by which an effect is produced.

Causative

CAUSATIVE, adjective That expresses a cause or reason; also, that effects as a cause.

Causatively

CAUSATIVELY, adverb In a causative manner.

Causator

CAUSATOR, noun One who causes or produces an effect.

Cause

CAUSE, noun s as z.

1. A suit or action in court; any legal process which a party institutes to obtain his demand, or by which he seeks his right or his supposed right. This is a legal, scriptural and popular use of the word, coinciding nearly with case from cado, and action from ago, to urge or drive.

The cause of both parties shall come before the judges. Exodus 22:5.

2. That which produces an effect; that which impels into existence, or by its agency or operation produces what did not before exist; that by virtue of which any thing is done; that from which any thing proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

CAUSE is a substance exerting its power into act, to make a thing begin to be.

3. The reason or motive that urges, moves, or impels the mind to act or decide.

For this cause have I raised up Pharaoh. Exodus 9:16.

And David said, is there not a cause? 1 Samuel 17:29.

4. Sake; account.

I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong. 2 Corinthians 6:1. [See Sake.]

5. That which a party or nation pursues; or rather pursuit, prosecution of an object. We say, Bible Societies are engaged in a noble cause [See the first definition.] Hence the word cause is used to denote that which a person or thing favors; that to which the efforts of an intelligent being are directed; as, to promote religion is to advance the cause of God. So we say, the cause of truth or of justice. In all its applications, cause retains something of its original meaning, struggle, impelling force, contest, effort to obtain or to effect something.

6. Without cause without good reason; without a reason or motive to justify the act.

They hate me without cause Psalms 35:19. Psalms 69:4.

CAUSE, verb transitive

1. To produce; to bring into existence.

They caused great joy to all the brethren. Acts 15:3.

2. To effect by agency, power or influence.

I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days. Genesis 7:4.

I will cause him to fall by the sword. 2 Kings 19:7.

CAUSE, verb intransitive To assign insufficient cause

Caused

CAUSED, participle passive Produced; effected; brought about.

Causeless

CAUSELESS, adjective

1. Having no cause, or producing agent.

2. Without just ground, reason or motive; as causeless hatred; causeless fear. Proverbs 26:2.

Causelessly

CAUSELESSLY, adverb Without cause or reason.

Causelessness

CAUSELESSNESS, noun The state of being causeless.

Causer

CAUSER, noun He that causes; the agent by which an effect is produced.

Causey

CAUSEY, noun A way raised above the natural level of the ground, by stones, earth, timber, fascines, etc., serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground, or as a mole to confine water to a pond or restrain it from overflowing lower ground. Most generally it is a way raised in a common road.

Causidical

CAUSIDICAL, adjective Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.

Causing

CAUSING, participle present tense Producing; effecting; bringing into being.

Caustic

CAUSTIC,

CAUSTICAL, adjective Burning; corroding; destroying the texture of animal flesh.

CAUSTIC, noun In medicine, any substance which applied to living animals, acts like fire, in corroding the part and dissolving its texture; an escharotic. [See Causticity.]

Lunar caustic a preparation of crystals of silver, obtained by solution in nitric acid, and afterwards fused in a crucible. It is a nitrate of silver.

CAUSTIC curve, in geometry, a curve formed by a coincidence of rays of light reflected from another curve.

Caustical

CAUSTICAL, a. Burning; corroding; destroying the texture of animal flesh.

Causticity

CAUSTICITY, noun The quality of acting like fire on animal matter, or the quality of combining with the principles of organized substances, and destroying their texture. This quality belongs to concentrated acids, pure alkalis, and some metallic salts.

Cautel

CAUTEL, noun Caution.

Cautelous

CAUTELOUS, adjective

1. Cautions; wary; provident.

2. Cunning; treacherous; wily.

Cautelously

CAUTELOUSLY, adverb

1. Cunningly; slily; treacherously.

2. Cautiously; warily.

Cautelousness

CAUTELOUSNESS, noun Cautiousness.

Cauterism

CAUTERISM, noun The application of cautery.

Cauterization

CAUTERIZATION, noun [See Cauterize.] In surgery, the act of burning or searing some morbid part, by the application of fire. This is done by burning tow, cotton, moxa, Spanish wax, pyramidical pieces of linen, etc., or more generally by a hot iron.

Cauterize

CAUTERIZE, verb transitive To burn or sear with fire or a hot iron, as morbid flesh.

Cauterized

CAUTERIZED, participle passive Burnt or seared with a hot iron.

Cauterizing

CAUTERIZING, participle present tense Burning, as with a hot iron.

CAUTERIZING, noun The act of burning, as with a hot iron.

Cautery

CAUTERY, noun A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, by a hot iron or by caustic medicines that burn, corrode or destroy any solid part of an animal body. The burning by a hot iron is called actual cautery; that by caustic medicines, potential cautery

Caution

CAUTION, noun

1. Provident care; prudence in regard to danger; wariness, consisting in a careful attention to the probable effects of a measure, and a judicious course of conduct to avoid evils and the arts of designing men.

CAUTION is the armor to defend us against imposition and the attacks of evil.

2. Security for, nearly the sense of the French caution bail.

The parliament would give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted.

3. Provision or security against; measures taken for security; as the rules and cautions of government.

4. Precept; advice; injunction; warning; exhortation, intended as security or guard against evil.

CAUTION, verb transitive To give notice of danger; to warn; to exhort to take heed.

You cautioned me against their charms.

Cautionary

CAUTIONARY, adjective

1. Containing caution, or warning to avoid danger; as cautionary advice.

2. Given as a pledge or in security; as a cautionary town.

Cautioned

CAUTIONED, participle passive Warned; previously admonished.

Cautioner

CAUTIONER, noun In Scots law, the person who is bound for another, to the performance of an obligation.

Cautioning

CAUTIONING, participle present tense Warning; giving previous notice of danger.

Cautionry

CAUTIONRY, noun In Scots law, the act of giving security for another, or the obligation by which one person becomes engaged as security for another, that he shall pay a sum of money or perform a deed.

Cautious

CAUTIOUS, adjective Wary; watchful; careful to avoid evils; attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of measures, with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect.

Cautiously

CAUTIOUSLY, adverb With caution; in a wary, scrupulous manner.

Cautiousness

CAUTIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being cautious; watchfulness; provident care; circumspection; prudence with regard to danger.

Cavalcade

CAVALCADE, noun A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen and equipage, by way of parade, or to grace a triumph, the public entry of a person of distiction, etc.

Cavalier

CAVALIER, noun

1. A horseman, especially an armed horseman; a knight.

2. A gay, sprightly, military man.

3. The appellation of the party of king Charles I.

4. In fortification, an elevation of earth, situated ordinarily in the gorge of a bastion, bordered with a parapet, with embrasures.

5. In the manege, one who understands horsemanship; one skilled in the art of riding.

CAVALIER, adjective

1. Gay; sprightly; warlike; brave; generous.

2. Haughty; disdainful.

Cavalierly

CAVALIERLY, adverb Haughtily; arrogantly; disdainfully.

Cavalierness

CAVALIERNESS, noun Haughtiness; a disdainful manner.

Cavalry

CAVALRY, noun A body of military troops on horses; a general term, including light-horse, dragoons, and other bodies of men, serving on horseback.

Cavate

CAVATE, verb transitive To dig out and make hollow; but superseded by excavate.

Cavatina

CAVATINA, noun In music, a short air, without a return or second part, which is sometimes relieved by recitative.

Cavazion

CAVAZION, noun In architecture, the underdigging or hollowing of the earth for the foundation of a building, or for cellarage; allowed to be the sixth part of the highth of the building.

Cave

CAVE, noun A hollow place in the earth; a subterraneous cavern; a den. This may be natural or artificial. The primitive inhabitants of the earth, in many countries, lived in caves; and the present inhabitants of some parts of the earth, especially in the high northern latitudes, occupy caves, particularly in winter.

Lot dwelt in a cave he and his daughters. Genesis 19:30.

CAVEs were also used for the burial of the dead.

Abraham buried Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelab. Genesis 23:9.

Bacon applies the word to the ear, the cave of the ear; but this application is unusual.

CAVE, verb transitive To make hollow.

CAVE, verb intransitive To dwell in a cave

To cave in, to fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. When in digging into the earth, the side is excavated by a falling of a quantity of earth, it is said to cave in.

Caveat

CAVEAT, noun

1. In law, a process in a court, especially in a spiritual court, to stop proceedings, as to stop the proving of a will; also to prevent the institution of a clerk to a benefice.

In America, it is used in courts of common law.

2. Intimation of caution; hint; warning; admonition.

CAVEAT, verb transitive To enter a caveat

Caveating

CAVEATING, noun In fencing, is the shifting the sword from one side of that of your adversary to the other.

Caveator

CAVEATOR, noun One who enters a caveat.

Cavern

CAVERN, noun A deep hollow place in the earth. In general, it differs from cave in greater depth, and in being applied most usually to natural hollows, or chasms.

Earth with its caverns dark and deep.

Caverned

CAVERNED, adjective

1. Full of caverns, or deep chasms; having caverns.

2. Inhabiting a cavern.

Cavernous

CAVERNOUS, adjective Hollow; full of caverns.

Cavernulous

CAVERNULOUS, adjective Full of little cavities; as cavernulous metal.

Cavesson

CAVESSON, noun A sort of nose-band, of iron, leather or wood, sometimes flat, and sometimes hollow or twisted, which is put on the nose of a horse to wring it, and thus to forward the suppling and breaking of him.

Cavetto

CAVETTO, noun In architecture, a hollow member, or round concave molding, containing the quadrant of a circle; used as an ornament in cornices.

Cavezon

CAVEZON,

CAVIAR, noun The roes of certain large fish, prepared and salted. The best is made from the roes of the sterlet, sturgeon, sevruga, and beluga, caught in the lakes of rivers of Russia. The roes are put into a bag with a strong brine, and pressed by wringing, and then dried and put in casks, or into cisterns, perforated at bottom, where they are pressed by heavy weights. The poorest sort is trodden with the feet.

Caviar

CAVIAR, n. The roes of certain large fish, prepared and salted. The best is made from the roes of the sterlet, sturgeon, sevruga, and beluga, caught in the lakes of rivers of Russia. The roes are put into a bag with a strong brine, and pressed by wringing, and then dried and put in casks, or into cisterns, perforated at bottom, where they are pressed by heavy weights. The poorest sort is trodden with the feet.

Cavil

CAVIL, verb intransitive

1. To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason; followed by at.

It is better to reason than to cavil

2. To advance futile objections, or to frame sophisms, for the sake of victory in an argument.

CAVIL, verb transitive To receive or treat with objections.

Wilt thou enjoy the good. Then civil the conditions.

CAVIL, noun False or frivolous objections; also, a fallacious kind of reason, bearing some resemblance to truth, advanced for the sake of victory.

Caviler

CAVILER, noun One who cavils; one who is apt to raise captious objections; a captious disputant.

Caviling

CAVILING, participle present tense Raising frivolous objections.

Cavilingly

CAVILINGLY, adverb In a caviling manner.

Cavillation

CAVILLATION, noun The act or practice of caviling, or raising frivolous objections.

Cavilous

CAVILOUS, adjective Captious; unfair in argument; apt to object without good reason.

Cavilously

CAVILOUSLY, adverb In a cavilous manner; captiously.

Cavilousness

CAVILOUSNESS, noun Captiousness; disposition or aptitude to raise frivolous objections.

Cavin

CAVIN, noun In the military art, a hollow way or natural hollow, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.

Cavity

CAVITY, noun A hollow place; hollowness; an opening; as the cavity of the mouth or throat. This is a word of very general signification.

Cavolinite

CAVOLINITE, noun A newly discovered Vesuvain mineral, of a hexahedral form, occurring in the interior of calcarious balls, accompanied with garnets, idocrase, mica, and granular pyroxene, lining the cavity of the geode, etc.

Cavy

CAVY, noun A genus of quadrupeds, holding a middle place between the murine and leporine tribes.

Caw

CAW, verb intransitive To cry like a crow, rook or raven.

Cawk

CAWK, noun A name given by miners to certain specimens of the compact sulphate of baryte. These are of a white, gray or fawn color, often irregular in figure, but sometimes resembling a number of small convex lenses set in a ground.

This name is sometimes given to masses composed of concentric lamellar concretions.

Caxou

CAXOU, noun A chest of ores of any metal that has been burnt, ground and washed, and is ready to be refined.

Cayman

CAYMAN, noun An animal of the genus Lacerta, found in the West Indies, the alligator.

Cazic

CAZIC, or CAZIQUE, noun The title of a king or chief among several tribes of Indians in America.

Cazique

CAZIC, or CAZQUE noun The title of a king or chief among several tribes of Indians in America.

Ccatholicism

CCATHOLICISM, n. 1. Adherence to the Catholic church.2. Universality, or the orthodox faith of the whole church.3. More generally, liberality of sentiments.This is the renowned seat of Catholicism.

Cease

CEASE, verb intransitive

1. To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun.

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife. Proverbs 20:3.

2. To fail; to be wanting.

The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deuteronomy 15:11.

3. To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.

4. To be forgotten.

I would make the remembrance of them to cease Deuteronomy 32:26.

5. To abstain; as, cease from anger. Psalms 37:8.

To cease from labor, is to rest; to cease from strife, is to be quiet; but in such phrases, the sense of cease is not varied.

CEASE, verb transitive To put a stop to; to put an end to. cease this impious rage. [But in this use the phrase is generally elliptical, ]

CEASE, noun Extinction.

Ceaseless

CEASELESS, adjective

1. Without a stop or pause; incessant; continual; without intermission.

All these with ceaseless praise his works behold.

2. Endless; enduring for ever; as the ceaseless joys of heaven.

Ceaselessly

CEASELESSLY, adverb Incessantly; perpetually.

Ceasing

CEASING, participle present tense Stopping; ending; desisting; failing.

Cecchn

CECCHN, noun A coin of Italy and Barbary. [See Zechin.]

Cecity

CECITY, noun Blindness.

Cedar

CEDAR, noun A tree. This name is given to different species of the juniper, and to a species of Pinus. The latter is that which is mentioned in scripture. It is an evergreen, grows to a great size, and is remarkable for its durability.

Cedar-Like

CEDAR-LIKE, adjective Resembling a cedar.

Cedarn

CEDARN, adjective Pertaining to the cedar.

Cede

CEDE, verb transitive

1. To yield; to surrender; to give up; to resign; as to cede a fortress, a province or country, by treaty. This word is appropriately used to denote the relinquishment of a conquered city, fortress, or territory, to the former sovereign or proprietor.

2. To relinquish and grant; as, to cede all claims to a disputed right or territory.

The people must cede to the government some of their natural rights.

Ceded

CEDED, participle passive Yielded; surrendered; given up.

Ceding

CEDING, participle present tense Yielding; giving up.

Cedrat

CEDRAT, noun A species of citron-tree.

Cedrine

CEDRINE, adjective Belonging to cedar.

Cedry

CEDRY, adjective Having the color or properties of cedar.

Ceduous

CEDUOUS, adjective Fit to be felled.

Ceil

CEIL, verb transitive To overlay or cover the inner roof of a building; or to cover the top or roof of a room.

And the greater house he ceiled with fir-tree. 2 Chronicles 3:1.

Ceiled

CEILED, participle passive Overlaid with timber, or with plastering.

Ceiling

CEILING, participle present tense Covering the top of a room or building.

CEILING, noun

1. The covering which overlays the inner roof of a building, or the timbers which form the top of a room. This covering may be of boards, or of lath and plastering. Hence ceiling is used for the upper part of a room.

2. In ship building, the inside planks of a ship.

Celandine

CELANDINE, noun A plant, swallow-wort, horned or prickly poppy, growing on old walls, among rubbish, and in waste places. The lesser celandine is called pile-wort, a species of Ranunculus. The name is also given to the Bocconia, a plant of the West Indies, called the greater tree-celandine. The true orthography would be Chelidine.

Celature

CELATURE, noun

1. The act or art of engraving or embossing.

2. That which is engraved.

Cele-Riac

CELE-RIAC, noun A variety of celery, called also the turnep-rooted celery. see Celery.]

Celebrate

CELEBRATE, verb transitive

1. To praise; to extol; to commend; to give to; to make famous; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.

The grave cannot celebrate thee. Isaiah 38:18.

2. To distinguish by solemn rites; to keep holy.

From even to even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath. Leviticus 23:32.

3. To honor or distinguish by ceremonies and marks of joy and respect; as, to celebrate the birth day of Washington; to celebrate a marriage.

4. To mention in a solemn manner, whether of joy or sorrow.

Celebrated

CELEBRATED, participle passive Praised; extolled; honored.

Celebrating

CELEBRATING, participle present tense Praising; honoring.

Celebration

CELEBRATION, noun

1. Solemn performance; a distinguishing by solemn rites; as the celebration of a marriage, or of a religious festival.

2. A distinguishing by ceremonies, or by marks of joy or respect; as the celebration of a birth day, or other anniversary.

3. Praise; renown; honor or distinction bestowed, whether by songs, eulogies, or rites and ceremonies.

Celebrator

CELEBRATOR, noun One who celebrates.

Celebrious

CELEBRIOUS, adjective Famous; renowned.

Celebriously

CELEBRIOUSLY, adverb With praise or renown.

Celebriousness

CELEBRIOUSNESS, noun Fame; renown.

Celebrity

CELEBRITY, noun

1. Fame; renown; the distinction or honor publicly bestowed on a nation or person, on character or exploits; the distinction bestowed on whatever is great or remarkable, and manifested by praises or eulogies; as the celebrity of the duke of Wellington; the celebrity of Homer, or of the Iliad.

England acquired celebrity from the triumphs of Marlborough.

2. Public and splendid transaction; as the celebrity of a marriage. In this sense, as used by Bacon, we now use celebration.

Celeri

CELERI. [See Celery.]

Celerity

CELERITY, noun

1. Rapidity in motion; swiftness; speed; applied most generally to bodies moving on or near the earth; as the celerity of horse or of a fowl. We speak of the velocity of sound or of light, or of a planet in its orbit. This distinction however is not general, nor can the different uses of the two words be precisely defined. We apply celerity rather than velocity to thought; but there seems to be no reason, except usage, why the two words should not be synonymous.

2. An affection of motion by which a movable body runs through a given space in a given time.

Celery

CELERY, noun A plant, a species of Apium cultivated for the table.

Celestial

CELESTIAL, adjective

1. Heavenly; belonging or relating to heaven; dwelling in heaven; as celestial spirits; celestial joys. Hence the word conveys the idea of superior excellence, delight, purity, etc.

2. Belonging to the upper regions, or visible heaven; as celestial signs; the celestial globe.

3. Descending from heaven; as a suit of celestial armor.

CELESTIAL, noun An inhabitant of heaven.

Celestially

CELESTIALLY, adverb In a heavenly or transporting manner.

Celestify

CELESTIFY, verb transitive To communicate something of a heavenly nature to any thing.

Celestin

CELESTIN,

CELESTINE, noun In mineralogy, native sulphate of strontian, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color.

Celestine

CELESTINE, n. In mineralogy, native sulphate of strontian, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color.

Celestins

CELESTINS, noun A religious order, so named from Pope Celestin. They have ninety-six convents in Italy, and twenty-one in France. They rise two hours after midnight to say matins. They eat no flesh, except when sick, and fast often. Their habit is a white gown, a capuche and a black scapulary.

Celiac

CELIAC, adjective Pertaining to the lower belly, or intestines.

Celibacy

CELIBACY, noun An unmarried state; a single life. It is most frequently if not always applied to males, or to a voluntary single life.

They look on celibacy as an accursed state.

Celibate

CELIBATE, noun A single life; celibacy; chiefly used when speaking of the single life of the Popish clergy.

Cell

CELL, noun

1. A small or close apartment, as in a prison, or a bath.

2. A cottage; a cave; a small or mean place of residence.

3. A small cavity or hollow place, variously applied; as the cells of the brain; the cells of a honey comb, etc.

4. In botany, a hollow place in a pericarp, particularly in a capsule, in which seeds are lodged. According to the number of these cells, pericarps are called unilocular, bilocular, trilocular, etc.

5. In anatomy, a little bag, or bladder, containing fluid or other matter; as the adipose cells, containing fat.

6. A religious house.

Cellar

CELLAR, noun A room under a house or other building, used as a repository of liquors, provisions, and other stores for a family.

Cellarage

CELLARAGE, noun A case of cabinet work, for holding bottles of liquors.

Cellarer

CELLARIST, CELLARER noun An officer in a monastery who has the care of the cellar, or the charge of procuring and keeping the provisions; also, an officer in chapters, who has the care of the temporals, and particularly of distributing bread, wine, and money to canons, an account of their attendance in the choir.

Cellarist

CELLARIST, CELLARER, noun An officer in a monastery who has the care of the cellar, or the charge of procuring and keeping the provisions; also, an officer in chapters, who has the care of the temporals, and particularly of distributing bread, wine, and money to canons, an account of their attendance in the choir.

Celliferous

CELLIFEROUS, adjective Bearing or producing cells.

Cellular

CELLULAR, adjective Consisting of cells, or containing cells.

The cellular membrane, in animal bodies, is composed of an infinite number of minute cells, communicating with each other. It invests every fiber, and seems to be the medium of connection between all parts of the body. The cells serve as reservoirs for fat.

Celluliferous

CELLULIFEROUS, adjective Bearing or producing little cells.

Celsitude

CELSITUDE, noun Highth; elevation.

Celt

CELT, noun One of the primitive inhabitants of the South of Europe. [see Celtic.]

Celtiberian

CELTIBERIAN, adjective Pertaining to Celtiberia, and its inhabitants, the Celtiberi, or Celts of the Iberus, a river in Spain.

CELTIBERIAN, noun An inhabitant of Celtiberia.

Celtic

CELTIC, adjective Pertaining to the primitive inhabitants of the South and West of Europe, or to the early inhabitants of Italy, Gaul, Spain and Britain. We say, celtic nations; celtic customs; celtic origin.

CELTIC, noun The language of the Celts.

Celticism

CELTICISM, noun The manners and customs of the Celts.

Celtis

CELTIS, noun The nettle-tree, of several species; among which are the australis or southern, a native of Africa and the South of Europe; the oriental, growing an Armenia and Taurica; and the western, growing in Virginia.

Cement

CEMENT, noun

1. Any glutinous or other substance capable of uniting bodies in close cohesion, as mortar, glue, soder, etc. In building, cement denotes a stronger kind of mortar than that which is ordinarily used.

2. Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.

3. Powders or pastes, surrounding bodies in pots and crucibles, for chimical purposes.

CEMENT, verb transitive To unite by the application of glutinous substances, by mortar which hardens, or other matter that produces cohesion of bodies.

2. To unite firmly or closely; as, to cement all parts of the community; to cement friendship.

CEMENT, verb transitive To unite or become solid; to unite and cohere.

Cementation

CEMENTATION, noun

1. The act of cementing; the act of uniting by a suitable substance.

2. In chimistry, the act of applying cements to substances, or the corroding and changing of them by cement. This is done by surrounding them with the powder of another body, and exposing them, in a close vessel, to a heat not sufficient to fuse them.

Cementatory

CEMENTATORY, adjective Cementing; having the quality of uniting firmly.

Cemented

CEMENTED, participle passive United by cement; changed by cement; firmly united; consolidated.

Cementer

CEMENTER, noun The person or thing that cements.

Cementing

CEMENTING, participle present tense Uniting by cement; changing by means of a cement; uniting closely; consolidating.

Cementitious

CEMENTITIOUS, adjective Having the quality of cementing.

Cemetery

CEMETERY, noun A place where the dead bodies of human beings are buried.

Cenatory

CENATORY, adjective Pertaining or relating to supper.

Cency

REJUVENES'CENCE, 'CENCY, noun [Latin re and juvenescens; juvenis, a youth.]

Cenobite

CENOBITE, noun One of a religious order, who live in a convent, or in community; in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

Cenobitic

CENOBITIC,

CENOBITICAL, adjective Living in community, as men belonging to a convent.

Cenobitical

CENOBITICAL, a. Living in community, as men belonging to a convent.

Cenoby

CENOBY, noun A place where person live in community.

Cenotaph

CENOTAPH, noun An empty tomb erected in honor of some deceased person; a monument erected to one who is buried elsewhere.

Cense

CENSE, noun

1. A public rate or tax.

2. Condition; rank.

CENSE, verb transitive To perfume with odors from burning substances.

Censer

CENSER, noun A vase or pan in which incense is burned. Among the Jews, a kind of chafing-dish, covered by a dome, and suspended by a chain, used to offer perfumes in sacrifices.

Censing

CENSING, participle present tense Perfuming with odors.

Cension

CENSION, noun A rate, tax, or assessment.