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Having to do with inlaid work; -- especially used with reference to work of the ancient Greeks.

The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist. The empyrean rung With hallelujahs. Milton.

ar; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

e of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate.

ement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed. A custom was among the ancients of proposing an enigma at festivals. Pope.

The rule by which the descent is fixed. A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. Hume.

To attribute; to ascribe. [Obs.] The ancient proverb . . . entitles this work . . . peculiarly to God himself. Milton.

In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.

Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor.

A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.

The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode.

Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order. Burke.

The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild. [Obs.]

A long strip or scroll resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment, or the like, anciently placed above the shield, and supporting the crest.

The language of ancient Ethiopia; the language of the ancient Abyssinian empire (in Ethiopia), now used only in the Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and is also called Geez.

Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy. "Etrurian Shades." Milton, -- n.

Of or pertaining to the ancient town of Eugubium (now Gubbio); as, the Eugubine tablets, or tables, or inscriptions.

row tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubæa and Bæotia. Hence, a flux and reflux. Burke.

Cut off; set apart. [Obs.] Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. Shak.

An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.