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Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.

Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.

A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents.

An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.

An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.

the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.

The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people. Though the Roman eagle shadow thee. Tennyson.

ncretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.

lenic Church, or Church of Greece, and the Russian Church), using the vernacular (or some ancient form of it) in divine service and varying in many points of detail, but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation. The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinopl…

esiastical courts. [Eng.] -- Ecclesiastical modes (Mus.), the church modes, or the scales anciently used. -- Ecclesiastical States, the territory formerly subject to the Pope of Rome as its temporal ruler; -- called also States of the Church.

something that has previously existed. Some regarded him [Klopstock] as an ectype of the ancient prophets. Eng. Cyc. .

A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

To make old or ancient. [Obs.] Time, that eldeth all things. Rom. of R.

Made of electrum, an alloy used by the ancients.

An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.

One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.

rpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography. Angle of elevation (Geodesy), the angle which an ascending line makes with a horizontal plane. -- Elevation of the host (R. C. Ch.), that part of the Mass in which the priest raises the host above his he…

ental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment. Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. Trench.

To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize. Anciently the sun was commonly emblematized by a starry or radiate figure. Bp. Hurd.