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haracter, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To mingle with a body so august. Byron.

reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature. -- Augustan confession (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the…

One of a class of divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.

department of the Austrian empire, and the members of different provincial chanceries of that empire are called aulic councilors. P. Cyc.

The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies.

The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.

e priest. This next chapter is a penitent confession of the king, and the strangest . . . that ever was auricular. Milton.

iginally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.

Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register. To be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire. Milton.

That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc. Hence:

Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.

That which is original to a particular country, or which had there its origin.

That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

nt, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.

In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus.

as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. Milton.

lp; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! Milton.

That which is available.

candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new shares. H. Spenser.