Search the Dictionary

Eradication. [R.] De Quincey.

A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. "The beatification of his spirit." Jer. Taylor.

A forking, or division into two branches.

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.

The process of chenge into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

Production of heat, esp. animal heat.

The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.

The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.

The act or process of forming cartilage. Wright.

The act of certifying.

The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.

Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.

The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.

ers, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. (Science) See under Artifitial.

A halting or limping. [R.] Tatler.

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races. Co*ed`u*ca"tion*al (, a.