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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:

of 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.

Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.

The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery. Council of Ancients (French Hist.), one of the two assemblies composing the legislative bodies in 1795. Brande.

A member of the Church of England. Whether Catholics, Anglicans, or Calvinists. Burke.

A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman.

ason; an annual plant. Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift.

and the place answer to convenience. Shak. If this but answer to my just belief, I 'll remember you. Shak. As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Pro

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.

n thou wit be to ask. Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison.