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ifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.

The ancients; the people of ancient times. That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has Sir W. Raleigh.

ons; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally. "How he apes his sire." Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. Burke.

A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.

One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.

A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians.

rthwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. -- n.

n the Christian church. Bibliotheca Sacra. To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people. Carlyle.

One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo

A native, or one of the people, of Asia.

The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.]

he proposer. Locke. The assent, if not the approbation, of the prince. Prescott. Too many people read this ribaldry with assent and admiration. Macaulay. Royal assent, in England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed both houses of Parliament, after which it becomes law.

composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.

e ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria. Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! Byron.

One of the Aztec race or people.

strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend. "Parliament would be backed by the people." Macaulay. Have still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments. South. The mate backed the captain manfully. Blackw. Mag.

Anything that heals, soothes, or restores. Was not the people's blessing a balsam to thy blood Tennyson. Balsam apple (Bot.), an East Indian plant ( Momordica balsamina), of the gourd family, with red or orange-yellow cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and poultices. -…

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement. "Wild, barbaric music." Sir W. Scott.

Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.

A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.