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sque, esp. a student of the higher branches of theology in a mosque school. [Written also sophta.]

to the Shrew family (Soricidæ); like a shrew in form or habits; as, the soricine bat (Glossophaga soricina).

Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances. The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy. Bp. Warburton. Spiny lobster. (Zoöl.) Same as Rock lobster, under Rock. See also Lobster.

ry light; starry flame. Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence Sir W. Scott.

orporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy. Sir I. Newton.

A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.

The primitive mouth and esophagus of the embryo of annelids and arthropods.

of the infection. De Foe. Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. Sir I. Newton. It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. Locke.

A student. [R.] W. Irving. Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philosophy. Tillotson.

erations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2. The philosophers of mind have, in a manner, usurped and appropriated this expression to themselves. Accordingly, in their hands, the phrases conscious or thinking subject, and subject, mean precisely the same thing. Sir W. Hamilton.…

One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.

Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.

s, as though they were sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy. J. Edwards.

A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink. As if I had swallowed snowballs for pills. Shak.

he doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as com…

ng else as a symbol, token, or representative of it. Bouvier. Chitty. -- Symbolical philosophy, the philosophy expressed by hieroglyphics.

A conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet; hence, any similar gathering.

different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.

Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion. Smart.