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A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. Bouvier.

or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.

Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n.

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott.

To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. Opportunities to approve . . . worth. Emerson. He had approved himself a great warrior. Macaulay. 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true. Byron. His account . . . approves him a man of thought. Parkman.

ruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.

In an arbitrary manner; by will only; despotically; absolutely.

The quality of being arbitrary; despoticalness; tyranny. Bp. Hall.

eelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section.

In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

c night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

Severely critical.

ook containing the principles of this science. Arithmetic of sines, trigonometry. -- Political arithmetic, the application of the science of numbers to problems in civil government, political economy, and social science. -- Universal arithmetic, the name given by Sir Isaac Newton to algebra.

A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

Destitute of a true root, as a parasitical plant.

he pope arrogated dominion over kings. He arrogated to himself the right of deciding dogmatically what was orthodox doctrine. Macaulay.

t, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.

w at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.