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Of reputable association or use; respectable. Let her descend: my chambers are honorable. Shak.

title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.

siding over the house and family; the Lares and Penates; hence, all objects endeared by association with home. -- Household troops, troops appointed to attend and guard the sovereign or his residence.

An association of huntsmen.

An alkaloid associated with cocaine in coca leaves (Erythroxylon coca), and extracted as a thick, yellow oil, having a pungent taste and odor.

ormation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebræ, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotormæ.

A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

Members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years.…

nternal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant, transitory, transitive, or objective. A cognition is an immanent act of mind. Sir W. Hamilton. An immanent power in the life of the world. Hare.

Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or the circumstances; rudeness; incivility. We should avoid the vexation and impertinence of pedants who affect to talk in a language not to be understood. Swift.

Want of affability or sociability; reticence.

Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.

Incommunicative; unsocial; reserved. [Obs.]

Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association.

The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation; as, the incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman republic.

present to the ear or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I allude to, are pests of society. Beattie.

d their wages, duties, and rights. The great ideas of industrial development and economic social amelioration. M. Arnold.

The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness. That ineptitude for society, which is frequently the fault of us scholars. Tatler.

Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous. "Infamous woods." P. Fletcher. Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. Milton. The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made. Dryden.…

ures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity. The infidel writer is a great enemy to society. V. Knox.