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Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony.

According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean.

Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial.

bserved in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies. According to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keep it [the Passover]. Numb. ix. 3 Bring her up the high altar, that she may The sacred ceremonies there partake. Spenser. [The heralds] with awful ceremony And tr…

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air.

by certificate, a trial which the testimony of the person certifying is the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; as, when the issue is whether a person was absent in the army, this is tried by the certificate of the proper officer in writing, under his seal. Blackstone.

Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.

dges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

ived from chemical changes or reactions. Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid. -- Chem`o*syn*thet"ic (#), a.

The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.

yllaseous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds.

A chirographer; a writer or engrosser.

Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser.

. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOClcalcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.

Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic sand.

lar; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.

more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.

A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian. Such an honest chronicler as Griffith. Shak.