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Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style.

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever. Humoral pathology (Med.), the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.

The state or quality of being humoral.

One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.

Same as Hydrochloride.

A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora.

The Hydroidea.

An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.

A show or exhibition having a great number of scenes or views.

One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather.

We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, "No bill," "No true bill," or "Not found," though in some jurisdictions "Ignored" is still used. Wharton (Law D…

The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

htened. He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. Tillotson.

The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.

One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.

In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.

Pertaining to the ilium and femur; as, iliofemoral ligaments.

Not memorable; not worth remembering. Johnson.

Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.

The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. Sir W. Temple.