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An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.

emosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions. The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. Wordsworth. Sisters of Charity (R. C. Ch.), a sisterhood of religious women engaged…

An application of chemical theory and method to the consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry of indigo.

The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc. The glory of our Troy this day doth lie On his fair worth and single chivalry. Shak.

hat aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.

aken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.

A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used. Wright. Nares.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.

roundabout way. -- Voltaic or Galvanic circuit or circle, a continous electrical communication between the two poles of a battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of electricity is established.

Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.

A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense. Syn. - Stronghold. See Fortress.

ility, and fallen again to ruin. Sir J. Davies. The gradual depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization. Trench.

A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works. Ure.

ransparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.

mate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, gemera, etc.

Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.

Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.

ase of a crystal, or to the plane of the lateral axes. -- Cell cleavage (Biol.), multiplication of cells by fission. See Segmentation. -- Cubuc cleavage, cleavage parallel to the faces of a cube. -- Diagonal cleavage, cleavage parallel to ta diagonal plane. -- Egg clavage. (Biol.) See Segmentation. -- Lateral clea…

Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. "A clerical education." Burke.