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The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

, Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred writings.

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.

Same Hagiographa.

The invocation or worship of saints.

One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer. Tylor. Hagiologists have related it without scruple. Southey.

The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints. J. H. Newman.

An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint. Hook.

The offspring of a hag. Shak.

The state or title of a hag. Middleton.

The permanent court of arbitration created by the "International Convention for the Pacific Settle of International Disputes.", adopted by the International Peace Conference of 1899. It is composed of persons of known competency in questions of international law, nominated by the signatory powers. From these persons an…

See Hagbut.

A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.

Cannibals; man-eaters; anthropophagi. [R.]

Anthropophagous.

Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects.

Man eaters; cannibals. Shak.

Relating to cannibalism or anthropophagy.

One who east human flesh. [Ludicrous] Shak.

A cannibal. W. Taylor.