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Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.

Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or feet.

In a pedestrial manner.

Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

To practice walking; to travel on foot.

One of the Polygastrica. [Obs.]

Subterranean.

Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth. Buckminster.

Sylvan. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. "Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor. xv. 40.

Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months; occurring once in every three months; quarterly.

Nonstriated; unstriped.

Of or pertaining to Zarathustra, or Zoroaster; Zoroastrian. Tylor.

A follower of Zoroaster; one who accepts Zoroastrianism.

The religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of Persia; mazdeism. The system presupposes a good spirit (Ormuzd) and an opposing evil spirit (Ahriman). Cf. Fire worship, under Fire, and Parsee.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

he things whereof they now accuse me. Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. Macaulay.

declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

geographical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.