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e; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation. All human things are subject to decay. Dryden.

The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as, the summit of human fame.

The supreme or highest good, -- referring to the object of human life.

To surpass; to exceed. Spenser. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. Milton.

The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a coöperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.

Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.

feast had tasted the water that was made wine. John ii. 9. When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse. Gibbon.

is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead animals, and sometimes invades human graves.

A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.

acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol. It has a bitter taste.

uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.

Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature. Murdock.

Partaking of, or combining, both divinity and humanity. [R.] The gorgeous and imposing figures of his [Homer's] theanthropic sytem. Gladstone.

The ascription of human atributes to the Deity, or to a polytheistic deity; anthropomorphism. Gladstone.

etically skilled. [Obs.] A man but young, Yet old in judgment, theoric and practic In all humanity. Massinger.

m which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, su…

An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.

hilosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.

The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. Thumb band, a twist of anything as thick as the thumb. Mortimer. -- Thumb blue, indigo in the form of small balls or lumps, used by washer…

ollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs.