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lar arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as:

Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence: Of or pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering.

ange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc. This original and supreme will organizes the govern…

The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny. Haeckel.

Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people.

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry. Burke.

test period of the Silurian age. Oriskany period, a subdivision of the American Paleozoic system intermediate or translational in character between the Silurian and Devonian ages. See Chart of Geology.

That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.

ork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.

Common or potash feldspar crystallizing in the monoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each other. See Feldspar.

A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.

Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization.

or producing electric oscillations; esp., an apparatus for generating electric waves in a system of wireless telegraphy.

A system of treatment based on the theory that diseases are chiefly due to deranged mechanism of the bones, nerves, blood vessels, and other tissues, and can be remedied by manipulations of these parts.

Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech. But that larger grief . . . Is given in outline and no more. Tennyson.

e of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.

A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use. Ellis. -- Pa`læ*o*typ"ic*al, a. -- Pa`læ*o*typ"ic*al*ly, adv.

e of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.

Universal wisdom; esp., a system of universal knowledge proposed by Comenius (1592 -- 1671), a Moravian educator. [R.] Hartlib.