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To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time. Burke.

he several things which engage our affections . . . shine forth and constellate in God. Boule.

iety; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs. Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact definitions. Macaulay.

To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.

Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

or casual; the possibility of coming to pass. Aristotle says we are not to build certain rules on the contingency of human actions. South.

Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint.

A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.

Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.

make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage.

ument of primitive Christian rites and ceremonies. But centuries of subjection to Moslem rule have weakened and degraded it.

Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits. Behold this cordial julep here That flames and dances in his crystal bounds. Milton.

A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.

parent, crystalline substance, easily soluble, and of an acrid, burning taste. It is a virulent poison, a powerful antiseptic, and an exellent antisyphilitic; called also mercuric bichloride. It is to be carefully distinguished from calomel, the mild chloride of mercury.

A thing (only in phrase below). Rule of Coss, an old name for Algebra. Etym: [It. regola di cosa rule of thing, the unknown quantity being called the cosa, or the thing.]

Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.

a quorum is not present. (c) To prevent the accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected. [Colloq.]

ite direction; contrariwise; - - used chiefly with run or go. Running counter to all the rules of virtue. Locks.

tate. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. Sir. W. Scott.

Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.