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A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle.

Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.

The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)

cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorus and insipid. Castor-oil plant. Same as Palma Christi.

One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.

Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. J. S. Mill.

person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.

The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto.

Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.

A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit. Gauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram und…

ay, to be revolving. A point near Alcyone in the Pleiades was supposed to possess characteristics of the position of such a body.

eligious sect, so called fron Cerinthus, a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics. Hook.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus Cestracion.

The arrangement of bristles on an insect.

A distinction of character; a characteristic. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the character of. The softness and effeminacy which characterize the men of rank in most countries. W. Irving.

, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.

osity. The heathen poet, in commending the charity of Dido to the Trojans, spake like a Christian. Dryden.

ually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle. [Written also chasible, and chesible.]

To make a noise by rapid collisions. With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden.