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of wealth and ownership of property are sinful, and in religion rejects all teachings not coming from Christ himself.

On this present or coming night.

Becoming torpid or numb. Shenstone.

Approaching; coming near. "His toward peril." Spenser.

Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

tepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread. She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat. Tennyson.

Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another.

Happening, coming about, or appearing once in every three years; as, triennial elections; a triennial catalogue; a triennial visitation. T. Warton.

rumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to catch these thieves. Shak. Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world. South.

The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence.

Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

The act of coming forth; a leaving of houses, shops, etc.; esp., a quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike; -- opposed to lockout.

Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.

Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.

The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult man.

up in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glan…

The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.

Not behooving or becoming; unseemly. [Obs. & R.] Gower.

To be unbecoming or unsuitable to; to misbecome.

Unbecoming; not befitting. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ness, n.