Search the Dictionary

rable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke.

The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.

the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

es of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral. R. Cyc.

Relating to apyrexy. "Apyrexial period." Brande & C.

Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.

Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.

A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebræ with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.

hop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke.

A prince of the imperial family of Austria.

A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.

architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

acy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift.

A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic.

The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.

iers organized largely for territorial defense, living at home and having only occasional periods of drill and instraction, who are variously called home reserves (as in the table below), second, third, etc., line of defense (the regular army and its reserves ordinarily constituting the first line of defense), territor…

e of behind, rear, subordinate. Arriere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. -- Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.

motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment. To arrive at, or attain to. When he arrived at manhood. Rogers. We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Milton.

Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, asquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; a, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage.