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To profane. [Obs.]

; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God.

The act of flowing forth; emanation; efflux. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- --) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that hysteria is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental his…

= Psychanalysis, Psychanalytic.

oes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.

See Pozzuolana.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of vanadium, analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.

sually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.

The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.

A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants. Ranal alliance (Bot.), a name proposed by Lindley for a group of natural orders, including Ranunculaceæ, Magnoliaceæ, Papaveraceæ, and others related to them.

A salt of rhodanic acid; a sulphocyanate. [Obsoles.]

Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians. "The vilest ruffianage." Sir F. Palgrave.

Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect. [R.]

The salagane.

The quality or state of being sanable; sanableness; curableness.

Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.

The quality of being sanable.

The act of healing or curing. [Obs.] Wiseman.