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To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.

A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. "When they had ordained them elders in every church." Acts xiv. 23.

Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.

Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.

terous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by pecular organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogda…

Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.…

Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.

Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusæ.

A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.

A character in general, as a figure or letter. [Obs.] This wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures. Sir W. Raleigh.

in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. This continual circulation of human things. Swift.

Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases.

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.

e dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.

The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychæta.

kes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.

ning to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid. Citric acid (Chem.), an organic acid, C3H4OH.(CO2H)3, extracted from lemons, currants, gooseberies, etc., as a white crystalline substance, having a pleasant sour taste.

A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ.

A reed stop in an organ.