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The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

Marked by impudence. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.

A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

Relating to enstatite.

Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances. Ellis. -- En"ti*ta*tive*ly, adv.

To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable." That which . . . we entitle patience. Shak.

To entitle. B. Jonson.

thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence. Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality. Shairp. Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification. Bentley.

The uppermost member of the cornice of an entablature.

a mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also culytine.

The quality of being exact; exactness.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.

Separable. [Obs.] "Exemptitious from matter." Dr. H. More.

ial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. -- Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fac*ti"tious-ness, n. He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. De Quincey.

in the passive voice on the subject of such activity. This second object is called the factitive object. J. W. Gibbs.

A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. Pope. -- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.

ice; fortuitous selection; hazard. [R.] No mode of election operating in the spirit of fortition or rotation can be generally good. Burke.

Power to resist attack; strength; firmness. [Obs.] The fortitude of the place is best known to you. Shak.