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A form of marriage among the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses.

Disposed to compliance or obedience; ready to follow directions; submissive; compliant.

e conjoined. Shak. Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already. Locke.

An assemblage of splendors or excellences. The constellations of genius had already begun to show itself . . . which was to shed a glory over the meridian and close of Philip's reign. Prescott.

q.] Thackeray. The men trudged diurnal constitutionals along the different roads. Compton Reade.

The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation; -- opposed to transubstantiation.

A senator; a counselor. [Obs.] Many of the consuls, raised and met, Are at the duke's already. Shak. With kings and consuls of the earth. Job. iii. 14 (Douay Ver. )

Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others. His genius rendered his courage more contagious. Wirt. The spirit of imitation is contagious. Ames.

r with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being requir…

n; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke.

A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.

In regular or repeated succession; very often. Thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. 2 Sam. ix. 7.

Ready to converse; social. [Archaic] Feltham.

these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find. Hooker.

together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons. There remained no resource but the dreadful one of convoking a parliament. palfrey.

A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

A chapman; a dealer; a merchant. [Obs.] He would have sold his part of paradise For ready money, had he met a copeman. B. Jonson.

A cop of thread.

One who reads copy to a proof reader.

rict infected with disease, to cut off communication, and thus prevent the disease from spreading.