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Resembling iron, as in taste. Wood.

One who uses irony.

One who is irreligious.

The state or quality of being isochronous.

The quality of having similar sexual zooids or gonophores and dissimilar hydrants; -- said of certain hydroids.

A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism.

s previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.

ial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each.

See Janizary.

The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace.

A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace.

After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles. Carlyle.

A quality, idiom, or peculiarity characteristic of the Japanese or their products, esp. in art.

One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Macaulay.

A fine white wine produced on the estate of Schloss (or Castle) Johannisberg, on the Rhine.

acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson. [Written also Johnsonism.]

An adherent to the doctrines of Jovinian, a monk of the fourth century, who denied the virginity of Mary, and opposed the asceticism of his time.

The doctrine or theory of Kant; the Kantian philosophy.

Clownish; booorish. [Obs.] "A petty kernish prince." Milton.

Resembling a kitten; playful; as, a kittenish disposition. Richardson.