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Mysterious or hidden doctrines; secret science.

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics. The completeness and consistency of its moral…

ristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.

treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character. J. S. Mill.

The science of the formation of character, national and collective as well as individual. J. S. Mill.

The science of causes. Same as tiology.

That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of from and meaning.

That part of moral philosophy which treats of happiness; the science of happiness; -- contrasted with aretaics. J. Grote.

The science of improving stock, whether human or animal. F. Galton.

The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body. [Obs.]

al badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity. The heart of the sons of men is full of evil. Eccl. ix. 3.…

full orb and extent than the human soul. Sir. M. Hale. The principles which art involves, science alone evolves. Whewell. Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. J. C. Shairp.

o be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.

The science of interpretation or exegesis.

One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete.

or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy. Herein do I Exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence. Acts xxiv. 16.

Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent. [Obs.] The eximious and arcane science of physic. Fuller.

taining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.

A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.