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Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborius or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom. The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries. Macaulay.

ing of being resolved; admitting separation into constituent parts, or reduction to first principles; admitting solution or explanation; as, resolvable compounds; resolvable ideas or difficulties.

To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.

The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.

One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric. The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. F. W. Robertson.

An instrument, acting on the principle of Pitot's tube, for measuring the velocity of a fluid current, the speed of a ship, etc.

The principles and practices of the Ribbonmen. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.

r or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence. The more rigid order of principles in religion and government. Hawthorne.

Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.

Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so- called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of…

the principles or conduct of royalists.

That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning. but I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit Those rudiments, and see before thine eyes The monarchies of the earth. Milton. the single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape. I. Taylor.…

Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.

A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule.

The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.

To adopt the principles of the Sadducees. Atterbury.

A follower of the Count de St. Simon, who died in 1825, and who maintained that the principle of property held in common, and the just division of the fruits of common labor among the members of society, are the true remedy for the social evils which exist. Brande & C.

The principles, doctrines, or practice of the Saint-Simonians; -- called also Saint-Simonism.

ivine energy, personified as the wife of a deity (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, etc.); the female principle.

Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.