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Singing, esp. as a chant is sung. Chanting falcon (Zoöl.), an African falcon (Melierax canorus or musicus). The male has the habit, remarkable in a bird of prey, of singing to his mate, while she is incubating.

A chiromancer.

Of or pertaining to chiromancy.

Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.

Capable of being circumstantiated. [Obs.] Jer Taylor.

to, circumstances or particular incidents. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. Paley.

The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.

s; not essentially; accidentally. Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only circumstantially different. Glanvill.

; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts. [R.] If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly. Bramhall.

On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.

To change into, or use as, a consonant. "The vowel is consonantized, that is, made closer in position." Peile.

A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.

ving the same substance or essence; coessential. Christ Jesus . . . coeternal and consubstantial with the Father and with the Holy Ghost. Foxe.

The doctrine of consubstantiation.

One who believes in consubstantiation. Barrow.

ion of the same nature; coexistence in the same substance. "His [the Son's] . . . consubstantiality with the Father." Hammend.

In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.

or to regard as united, in one common substance or nature. [R.] His soul must be consubstantiated with reason. Jer. Taylor.

The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation; -- opposed to transubstantiation.

A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep. Dunglison.