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Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.

The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.

Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I…

Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell.

Condition; rank. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag.

the brain for the diagnosis of diseas; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope). Buck.

formally respectful; punctilious. "Ceremonious phrases." Addison. Too ceremonious and traditional. Shak.

The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames.

en by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.

l receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance.

that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty. It was a chance that happened to us. 1 Sam. vi. 9. The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts, And wins (O shameful chance!…

n those thousands with whom thou wouldst not, for any interest, change thy fortune and condition. Jer. Taylor.

The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and order forms.

The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.

A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check. Which gave a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity. Addison. No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. Wordsworth.

w of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.