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spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness. "Plenty of corn and wine." Gen. xxvii. 28. "Promises Britain peace and plenty." Shak. Houses of office stuffed with plentee. Chaucer. The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the worl…

of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.

ealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Coleridge.

ny institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution. Nor is possible that any form of polity, much less polity ecclesiastical, should be good, unless God himself be author of it. Hooker.

Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace. [R.] Such popular humanity is treason. Addison.

The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life. In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. Sir J. Reynolds.

At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.

In a potential manner; possibly, not positively. The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. Bentley.

government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity. "The powers of darkness." Milton. And the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. Matt. xxiv. 29.

ecially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature. "The pravity of the will." South.

The theory of a preëxistence of souls before their association with human bodies. Emerson.

e print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow. Where print of human feet was never seen. Dryden.

rtunity of proving his character, and becoming qualified for a happier state. No [view of human life] seems so reasonable as that which regards it as a state of probation. Paley.

A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.

Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage. " Issued from the progeny of kings." Shak.

; a plan. Vented much policy, and projects deep. Milton. Projects of happiness devised by human reason. Rogers. He entered into the project with his customary ardor. Prescott.

incts and appetites. Those high and peculiar attributes . . . which constitute our proper humanity. Coleridge.

The addition to the human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; -- called also prothesis.

y of the weather; to provide for the education of a child. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke.

The doctrine of the merely human existence of Christ.