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An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. P. Cyc.

An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.

trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

ing confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.

The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.

Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; - - opposed to Ant: speculative or Ant: theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman.

In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively.

in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, coceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.

To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.

and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

ffairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

tice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.