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The tenets of Sabbatarians. Bp. Ward. (1673).

Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians.

A genus of plants of the Poppy family.

Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.

Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridæ, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.…

A genus of coarse herbs having small flowers in panicled cymes; figwort.

Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of gamopetalous plants (Scrophulariaceæ, or Scrophularineæ), usually having irregular didynamous flowers and a two-celled pod. The order includes the mullein, foxglove, snapdragon, figwort, painted cup, yellow rattle, and some exotic trees, as the Paulownia.…

One of a family (Scyllaridæ) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennæ. Also used adjectively.

Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary. [R.] Secretarial, diplomatic, or other official training. Carlyle.

The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.

liar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.

The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

A member of a branch of the Arians which did not acknowledge the Son to be consubstantial with the Father, that is, of the same substance, but admitted him to be of a like substance with the Father, not by nature, but by a peculiar privilege.

The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Arians.

Half barbarous; partially civilized. -- n.

A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.

A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.

The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia Serpentaria).

A genus of delicate branching hydroids having small sessile hydrothecæ along the sides of the branches.