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irth; obstetric; hence, facilitating any bringing forth or deliverance. [Obs.] Yet is all human teaching but maieutical, or obstetricious. Cudworth.

One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer. I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. 1 Kings i. 21.

those bright luminaries Officious. Milton. They were tolerably well bred, very officious, humane, and hospitable. Burke.

An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster. His schoolroom must have resembled an ogre's den. Maccaulay.

ue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.

Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc. Calculus of operations. See under Calculus.

One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.

Organic. The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move. Bentley.

ce, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc. This original and supreme will organizes the government. Cranch.

(Theol.), the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also total depravity. See Calvinism.

dy; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.

practice of curing the deformities of children, or, by extension, any deformities of the human body.

The treatment of deformities in the human body by mechanical appliances.

To value excessively; to rate at too high a price. "To overvalue human power." Holyday.

ge;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.

woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another versi…

A systematic view of all branches of human knowledge; a work of universal information.

the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race. See Calvinism.

soon the charm will pass. Dryden. The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. Tennyson.

M. W. Montagu. We also are men of like passions with you. Acts xiv. 15. The nature of the human mind can not be sufficiently understood, without considering the affections and passions, or those modifications or actions of the mind consequent upon the apprehension of certain objects or events in which the mind generall…