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The uniformitarian doctrine.

Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.

The doctrines of Unitarians.

To change or turn to Unitarian views.

Having one degree of freedom or variability.

Invariable. Donne.

The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.

Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.

The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. Bentham.

A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See Ascidium,

health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge. The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay.

The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.

The quality or state of being variable; variableness.

e capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.

The quality or state of being variable; variability. James i. 17.

In a variable manner.

The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.

To alter; to make different; to vary.

r qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language. The essences of things are conceived not capable of any such variation. Locke.