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Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.

nds a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student. Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book. Shak.

A body of students. [R.]

The state of being a student.

Indented beneath.

The act or process of subsiding. The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions. Bp. Warburton.

coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy. "O sudden wo!" Chaucer. "For fear of sudden death." Shak. Sudden fear troubleth thee. Job xxii. 10.

Suddenness; a sudden. [Scot.] On a suddenty, on a sudden. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision. Barrow.

The act of superintending; superintendence. Boyle.

stitution, or organization, affairs, etc., with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an almshouse; the superintendent of public works.

One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus…

The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.

Tendency. [Obs.]

ect or result. Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country. Addison. In every experimental science, there is a tendency toward perfection. Macaulay.

Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. [Obs.] Shak.

To grow; to thrive. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence. The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity at its controlling principle. A. V. G. Allen.

Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor. Clothed with transcendent brightness. Milton.

Supereminent; surpassing others; as, transcendental being or qualities.