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One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.

The science which treats of catadioptric phenomena, or of the used of catadioptric instruments.

The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.

That part of optics which explants the properties and phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies; --- formerly caled anacamptics.

A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting. This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the g…

ewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place.

nown; as, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell.

The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.

A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet. [Written also centipede (

The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.

Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill. He pulled out a thirty-pound note and bid me change it. Goldsmith. To change a horse, or To change hand (Man.), to turn or bear the horse's head from one hand to the other, from t…

pecification of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.

Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.

A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.

tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.

Relating to chironomy.

The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.

To give a name; to denominate. "Christen the thing what you will." Bp. Burnet.

One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites.

used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.