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and prosperity. The care of all the churches. 2 Car. xi. 28 Him thy care must be to find. Milton. Perlexed with a thousand cares. Shak.

eful [Rev. Ver. "anxious"] for nothing. Phil. iv. 6. The careful plowman doubting stands. Milton.

Flesh of slain animals or men. A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage. Macaulay.

opposed to spiritual. For ye are yet carnal. 1 Car. iii. 3. Not sunk in carnal pleasure. Milton rnal desires after miracles. Trench.

To praise or celebrate in song. The Shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness. Milton.

René Descartes, or his philosophy. The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. Cartesian coördinates (Geom), distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing geometric quantities, invented by Descartes. -- Cartesian devil, a small hollow glass figure, used in connection…

r intended to contain something highly esteemed; as: (a) The body. (Shak). (b) The tomb. (Milton). (c) A book of selections. [poetic] They found him dead . . . an empty casket. Shak.

ing to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses. Milton.

To play the casuist. Milton.

A horseman covered with a cataphract. Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears. Milton.

A woman who caters. Milton.

eway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

To cavil at. [Obs.] Milton.

a stop to; to bring to an end. But he, her fears to cease Sent down the meek-eyed peace. Milton. Cease, then, this impious rage. Milton

aining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine. "Celestial spirits." "Celestial light," Milton. Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly Jerusalem. Bunyan. -- Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appoined by heaven. S. W…

To place or fix in the center or on a central point. Milton.

taining to, or resembling, Cerberus. [Written also Cerberian.] With wide Cerberean mouth. Milton.

] with awful ceremony And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim A solemn council. Milton.

with an infinitive. However, I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom. Milton.

a bond; as, the chains of habit. Driven down To chains of darkness and the undying worm. Milton.