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A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.

A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering. Tylor.

The religion of the Huguenots in France.

See Hylotheism.

d rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy.

The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.

The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism. [Obs.]

n the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism. Dunglison.

Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress. [Political Cant, U.S.]

The state or quality of being hybrid.

A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.

A tendency towards moisture.

Hygiene.

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

Same as Hylotheism.

The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-Fleming.

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.

The use of hyperbole. Jefferson.

The condition of having an unusual intensity of color.