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One who remembers.

The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.

A Setembrist. Carlyle.

To deprive of membership, as in a church.

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

The act or process of cutting off. "Not to be cured without the abscission of a member." Jer. Taylor.

as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun. If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined. Addison.

the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community. J. S. Mill.

trictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

A member of the Abyssinian Church.

A member of an academy, university, or college.

A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

a performance; a deed. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses:

power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term.

f one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with. Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other.

Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols 2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke.

glish country places, so called from the liquor drunk. "At wakes and ales." B. Jonson."On ember eves and holy ales." Shak.