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e. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

consider as belonging (to). We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer. Shak.

An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.

Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds.

or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. Shak. By what authority doest thou the…

Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.

The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition. [Obs.] In strifeful terms with him to balk. Spenser.

An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. "Under ban to touch." Milton.

ies colonized by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs.

Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of. If a suit be begun before an archdeacon. Ayliffe.

In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below. Wheaton.

Blessing; beatitude; benediction. Shak. More precious than the benison of friends. Talfourd.

tes to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal.

g of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. -- Bi*lin"gual*ly, adv.

ee which does not actually exist; one who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction. Shipley. -- Titular bishop (R. C. Ch.), a term officially substituted in 1882 for bishop in partibus. -- Bench of Bishops. See under Bench.

Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.

A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.

tion of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces. This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. Deut. xxxiii. 1.