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ttering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey.

Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering. -- Syc"o*phant`ish*ly, adv. Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. De Quincey.

Sycophancy.

To play the sycophant.

Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy.

A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protraced dancing to appropriate music. [Written also tarentism.]

A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.

A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.

A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and incased in wet tatties. [India]

A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean.

To change into another substance. [R.] The spider love which transubstantiates all, And can convert manna to gall. Donne.

in the Mass is converted into the body and blood of Christ; -- distinguished from consubstantiation, and impanation.

One who maintains the doctrine of transubstantiation. Barrow.

The second joint of the leg of an insect, -- often united with the coxa.

To render other than Protestant; to cause to change from Protestantism to some other form of religion; to deprive of some Protestant feature or characteristic. The attempt to unprotestantize the Church of England. Froude.

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

To make unsubstantial. [R.]

A divesting of substantiality.

Of or pertaining to the Vedas.