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o wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

r involve darkly. There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory. L'Estrange.

ount on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B. Bank credit, or C…

One who explains the decalogue. J. Gregory.

The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.

Craft; insidiousness. [R.] J. Gregory.

ation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons. Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime. Burke.

A votary. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

To guard as a churchwarden does. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

Enumeration; computation. [R.] J. Gregory.

The state of being balanced; equality of weight. [R.] J. Gregory.

Of or pertaining to holidays. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name. Gregorian calendar, the calendar as reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. in 1582, including the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of East…

According to the Hellenistic manner or dialect. J. Gregory.

Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.

Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent. J. Gregory. Letters of horning (Scots Law), the process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply therewith. Mozley & W.

Indefatigableness; unweariedness. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

sting in an unconcern for any particular creed, provided the morals be right and good. Gregory XVI.

. Bp. Hall. The inefficacy was soon proved, like that of many similar medicines. James Gregory.

or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.