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Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.

nciples of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party.

Angular; having corners; hooked. [R.] Held together by hooks and angulous involutions. Glanvill.

To record in annals. Sheldon.

week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar.

A feldspar closely related to orthoclase, but triclinic. It is chiefly a silicate of sodium, potassium, and aluminium. Sp. gr., 2.57 -- 2.60.

A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda- lime feldspar, usually labradorite.

One who goes before; a predecessor. The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys.

Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. "Antelucan worship." De Quincey.

Of or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the first council of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.

Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata.

Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism. [R.] Selden.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.

a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered. He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in Carlyle.

al. [Obs.] An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield.

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. Sheldon.

sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (de arcubus). It is now held in Westminster. Mozley & W.

of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb.

The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal