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A writer of chronograms.

One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. Tooke.

the Olympian gods. The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic names of the deities, which are supposed to have been primarily ghosts.

A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

A wax candle used in religous rites.

so, a writing in such characters. His father . . . engaged him when he was very young to write all his letters to England in cipher. Bp. Burnet. Cipher key, a key to assist in reading writings in cipher.

to write or engare around. [R.] Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph. Ashmole.

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

One skilled in the civil law. Ancient civilians and writers upon government. Swift.

A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison. Cobalt bloom. Same as Erythrite. -- Cobalt blue, a dark blue pigment consisting of some salt of cobalt, as the phosphate, ignited with alumina; -- called also cobalt ultramarine, and Thenard's blue. -- Cobalt crust, earthy arseniate of cobalt. -- Cobalt glance…

A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

A writer of comedy. Milton.

One who describes or writes about comets.

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon. A physician to comment on your malady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden…

To write comments or notes upon; to make comments. [R.] Commentate upon it, and return it enriched. Lamb.

One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.

One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.

Triteness; meanness.

Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

To write; to compose. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.