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According to the Hellenistic manner or dialect. J. Gregory.

A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.

In evolution, a deviation from the typical sequence in the formation of organs or parts.

One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis. Bastian.

An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish. Todd.

Finished with great care; polished.

Theatrical representation; acting; affectation. Sir T. Browne.

Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden.

Somewhat like horn; hard.

ad rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy.

ented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog.

Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird.

The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.

Hygiene.

One versed in hygiene.

A writer of hymns.

The dramatic practice or purpose characteristic of the writings of Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and dramatist, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.

An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebræ, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotormæ.

or semblance; a delineation or description. Some kind of apish imitations, counterfeit iconisms. Cudworth.

Fig.: A misleading influence; a decoy. Scared and guided by the ignis fatuus of popular superstition. Jer. Taylor.