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08), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.

rape money together. The prelatical party complained that, to swell a number the nonconformists did not choose, but scrape, subscribers. Fuller.

A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Deceived or misled respecting one's self by one's own mistake or error.

h to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary. Heavy fines on divines who should preach in any meeting of separatist . Macaulay.

A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset. Tyndall.

Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.

That which covers or shelters like a shroud. Jura answers through her misty shroud. Byron.

mustard oil; specifically, designating an acid of the oleic acid series said to occur in mistard oil.

A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue.

One who affects singularity. [Obs.] A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow.

imes to a woman. In sililoquies often preceded by ah. Not used in the plural. "Ah, sirrah mistress." Beau & Fl. Go, sirrah, to my cell. Shak.

To afflict; to chasten; to punish. Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him. Wake.

That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.

rier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The…

Shak. -- Sooner or later, at some uncertain time in the future; as, he will discover his mistake sooner or later. -- With the soonest, as soon as any; among the earliest; too soon. [Obs.] Holland.

try. Prov. xxv. 25. God forbid so many simple souls Should perish by the aword! Shak. Now mistress Gilpin (careful soul). Cowper.

A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits. [Obs.]

See Spermist.

Pertaining to, or taught by, Stahl, a German physician and chemist of the 17th century; as, the Stahlian theory of phlogiston.