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ting from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative. Now, what solemnity can be more required for the pope to make a cathedral determination of an article! Jer. Taylor.

To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.

Celebration; solemnization. [Obs.] The celebrity of the marriage. Bacon.

Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial. "Centenary solemnities." Fuller.

n the Roman Catholic church, or the book containing the rules presribed to be observed on solemn occasions.

er. [The heralds] with awful ceremony And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim A solemn council. Milton.

mbining or uniting persons and things. Making new compounds by new combinations. Boyle. A solemn combination shall be made Of our dear souls. Shak.

To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect of affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Su…

The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration. We charge you, in the name of God, take heed; . . . Under this conjuration speak, my lord. Shak.

To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure. I conjure you, let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. Addison.

Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. [Obs.] Milton.

One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.

consecration be at an end. Lev. viii. 33. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares it so. South.

Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council. To council summons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory. Milton.

Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. [Obs.] A solemn contestation ratified on the part of God. Barrow.

own or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis. Fairholt.

The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.

ted in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth. Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.

Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.

eformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant." He [Wharton] was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house. Macualay.