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The preaching or promulgation of the gospel. Bacon.

The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.

The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist.

The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.

The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.

The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.

, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionists. Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a philosophical one. G. C. Robertson.

manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals. This externalism gave Catholicism a great advantage on all sides. E. Eggleston.

lse; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.

The tenets of the Familists. Milton.

Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.

Fanaticism. [R.] Gibbon.

The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

lass of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.

the principles of Federalists or of federal union.

The principles, purposes, and methods of the Fenians.

olute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.

See Fetichism.