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ke. Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots. De Quincey.

Tending to advance or promote; contributive. "Ministerial to intellectual culture." De Quincey. The ministerial benches, the benches in the House of Commons occupied by members of the cabinet and their supporters; -- also, the persons occupying them. "Very solid and very brilliant talents distinguish the ministerial be…

Wrong collocation. De Quincey.

One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever. [Obs.] Spenser. De Quincey. Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Rivers.

Hatred of God. De Quincey.

f slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places. -- Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. -- Mock lead. See Blende (a). -- Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. -- Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers…

Possessing but one capacity or power. "Monodynamic men." De Quincey.

One who soliloquizes; esp., one who monopolizes conversation in company. De Quincey.

by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. De Quincey.

A word; hence, a motto; a device. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar. Shak.

ce produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.

f Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace. De Quincey.

A story which pleases me by its naïveté -- that is, by its unconscious ingenuousness. De Quincey.

ly to designate a yellow crystalline substance, called naphthalenic acid and also hydroxy quinone, and obtained from certain derivatives of naphthol.

A dyestuff, resembling alizarin, obtained from naphthoquinone as a red crystalline substance with a bright green, metallic luster; -- called also naphthalizarin.

ant dyestuffs produced from certain complex nitrogenous derivatives of naphthol or naphthoquinone.

The modern revival of the Scholastic philosophy, esp. of that of Thomas Aquinas, with critical revision to suit the exigencies of the general advance in learning. The Neo-Scholastic movement received a great impetus from Leo XIII.'s interest in it.

some subtile nexus ... extending from the new-born infant to the superannuated dotard. De Quincey.

anic acid produced as a white crystalline substance by the action of nitrous acid on hydroquinone.

A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five. [Obs.] Shak.