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, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. B. Franklin.

e as the majority of the members of a diocese or congregation. This plan was successfully opposed by the American party in the Church.

Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. B. G. Wilder.

In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.

ing its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.

ites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual. For ye are yet carnal. 1 Car. iii. 3. Not sunk in carnal pleasure. Milton rnal desires after miracles. Trench.

reek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic.

One who opposes baptism, especially of infants. [Obs.] Featley.

rer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.

in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.

urface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. Faraday. Cathode ray (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge.

electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion. Faraday.

Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.

o, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous. [Obs.]

Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion. Addison.

ither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.

Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.

A candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified. [Oxford, Eng.]

The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.

ted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open. Close borough. See under Borough. -- Close breeding. See under Breeding. -- Close communion, communion in the Lord's supper, restricted to those who have received baptism by immersion. -- Close corporation, a b…