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Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr. ).

Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface. [Obs.] Milton.

Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.

[Obs.] -- Jeweler's gold, an alloy containing three parts of gold to one of copper. -- Mosaic gold. See under Mosaic.

g of silica, borax, and soda, fused with oxide of copper and iron, and used in enamels, mosaics, etc.

To pave. [Poetic] Impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic. Wordsworth.

A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.

es in various instances. They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law. Bp. Bull.

A weed; a kecksy. Bp. Gauden. Though the rough kex break The starred mosaic. Tennyson.

The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament. What things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law . . . But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the pro…

According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses

A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard. Deut. xxiii. 2 (Douay version).

Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines.

An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus. Ex. xxx. 34.

r is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort, or by use of acids. Called also mosaic gold. Ormolu varnish, a varnish applied to metals, as brass, to give the appearance of gold.

Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. [Obs.] "Pharisean disciples." Milton.

the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.

That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic. [R.] Sir T. Browne.