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One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.

Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.

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.

Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.

Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing. "Documentary evidence." Macaulay.

Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, a Canis Majoris. See Dog days.

See Donatory.

One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood. The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior.

Foolish; weak. Dr. H. More.

A dotard's weakness; dotage. [Obs.] Drayton.

An old, decayed tree. [R.] Bacon.

A political dynamiter.

rious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.

See Electuary.

Elementary. [Obs.] Skelton.

The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.

Elementariness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

e or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.

To bastardize. [Obs.]

The commander of an enomoty. Mitford.