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Hateful; shocking. "Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver." Shak.

A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium. Liddel & Scott.

A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.

an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.

Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.

as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

atements or verdicts on their honor. -- Point of honor, a scruple or nice distinction in matters affecting one's honor; as, he raised a point of honor. -- To do the honors, to bestow honor, as on a guest; to act as host or hostess at an entertainment. "To do the honors and to give the word." Pope. -- To do one honor…

A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture. [R.]

A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.

To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind. It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that invention. Dryden.

That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils. Graham.

. Tennyson. To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." Pope.

Presiding over matter. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.

A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.

A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil.

The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-Fleming.

The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.

The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.] Cudworth.