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The state of being glorifed; as, the glorification of Christ after his resurrection.

A principle of grammar; a grammatical rule. [Obs.] Dalgarno.

The act or the process of forming into granite. Humble.

t of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.

The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.

See Haruspicy. Tylor.

A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims. Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed. Addison. More than a human hecatomb. Byron.

A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.

A witch; a hag. Middleton.

Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.

or heretical. Bp. Hall. And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me. Fitzed. Hall.

The act of hereticating or pronouncing heretical. London Times.

Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.

That which causes horror. [R.] Miss Edgeworth.

A salt of hydrofluosilic acid; a silicofluoride. See Silicofluoride.

Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.

ortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.…

The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or jus in re. Pothier. B. R. Curtis. There are but few cases, if any, in…

One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.