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mend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary. The Revised Version of the Bible, a version prepared in accordance with a resolution passed, in 1870, by both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, England. Both English and American revisers were employed on the work. It w…

Of or pertaining to Rheimis, or Reima, in France. Rhemish Testament, the English version of the New Testament used by Roman Catholics. See Douay Bible.

The production of blood; the conversion of the products of digestion into blood; hematosis.

Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance.

The act, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate.

stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandly, or the like. Ex. viii. 17 (Douay version).

The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.

A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

mbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx. The Seventy, the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See Septuagint.

To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. "With shuddering horror pale." Milton. The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith.

To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated. Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. Shak.

A version to food; refusal to take nourishment. [Written also sitiophobia.]

more recent version of soppy. Used esp. in phrase sopping wet.

Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.

Same as Stela. One of these steles, containing the Greek version of the ordinance, has recently been discovered. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

ages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.

Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.

by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.

Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch. -- n.

ike tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come. Jer. xvii. 6 (Douay version).