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In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism. The Grand Lama, or Dalai Lama Etym: [lit., Ocean Lama], the supreme pontiff in the lamaistic hierarchy. See Lamaism.

Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone.

titudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief. Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. De Quincey. He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion. J. S. Harford.

See Lief. [Obs.] Chaucer.

uialism, or slang expression, used as an aside to indicate insincerity, negation, or disbelief; as, he said it, and it is true, -- over the left.

Dear. See Lief. [Obs.] Chaucer.

More agreeable; more pleasing. [Obs.] Chaucer. To be lever than. See Had as lief, under Had.

A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.

Same as Lief.

Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story. It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous. Johnson.

Release; remission; ease; relief. [Obs.] "Of penance had a lisse." Chaucer.

Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title. -- Mah"dist (#), n.

picture representing some marine subject. Tell that to the marines, an expression of disbelief, the marines being regarded by sailors as credulous. [Colloq.]

To put to death for adhering to some belief, esp. Christianity; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession. Bp. Pearson.

quilting, the surface being marked by depressed lines which form squares or lozenges in relief; as, matelassé silks.

or affluence of imagery. "Meager soil." Dryden. Of secular habits and meager religious belief. I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. Motley.

cular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief.

A middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief.

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.