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One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.

A native or inhabitant of Paris, the capital of France.

A female native or resident of Paris.

The use of equivocal or ambiguous words. [R.]

Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.

A minute description; a detailed statement. [R.]

One who holds to particularism. -- Par*tic`u*lar*is"tic, a.

A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.

One versed in patristics.

Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church. The voluminous editor of Jerome anf of tons of patristic theology. I. Taylor.

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. Whatly.

An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.

The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids.

Having the shadow moving all around.

Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass.

A general or comprehensive view. [R.]

Viewing all around, or on all sides. Periscopic spectacles (Opt.), spectacles having concavo-convex or convexo-concave lenses with a considerable curvature corresponding to that of the eye, to increase the distinctness of objects viewed obliquely.

to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. I perish with hunger! Luke xv. 17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. Locke.

Perishableness.