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A smearing. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid.

The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.

To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.

Definitive; determinate; final. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.

Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings. Shak.

A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship. Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin.

Insanity; folly. [Obs.] What tediosity and disensanity Is here among! Beau. & Fl.

The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. [Obs.]

he union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

One who, or that which, disjoins or causes disunion.

A state of separation or disunion; want of unity. Dr. H. More.

Long duration; lastingness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

ate of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead. When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.

A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.

The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.

A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.