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The state or quality of being catholic; universality.

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

In a catholic manner; generally; universally. Sir L. Cary.

The quality of being catholic; universality; catholicity.

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.

rtion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.

One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

ted in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.

One who is engaged in chromolithography.

Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.

Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.

A photolithograph printed in colors.

idered as more primitive in form than that of the Olympian gods. The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic names of the deities, which are supposed to have been primarily ghosts.

Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions. [The] chthonic character of the wife of Zeus. Max Müller.

A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.

A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. [U.S.]

A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.

A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from

Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidæ.