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Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural . . . . But a mannerism which does not sit easy on the mannerist, whic…

One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.

Growing in marshes. "Marish flowers." Tennyson.

Benedictines, originating in France in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Maurists have been distinguished for their interest in literature.

One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.

A mediocre person. [R.]

See Mechitarist.

A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys.

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement. J. Sully.

A writer of memoirs.

One who, or that which, causes to be remembered. [Obs.]

A communication of news; an announcement. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

aration into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many.

A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division.

The art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.

One who practices, or believes in, mesmerism.

Contempt; scorn. [Obs.]

The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.

One who makes metaphors.

Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.