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Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively.

The vow and practice of a Nazarite.

One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.

Hellenism as surviving or revival in modern times; the practice or pursuit of ancient Greek ideals in modern life, art, or literature, as in the Renaissance.

A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground,…

One who advocates or practices nephalism.

One who practices nepotism.

One who skilled in or practices neurotomy.

A neutral; one who professes or practices neutrality. Milman.

Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed. New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. Pope.

One who practices the style of ornamentation called niello.

The theories and practices of the Nihilists.

The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.

dispensing power was abolished by the Bill of Rights. In this very reign [Henry III.] the practice of dispensing with statutes by a non obstante was introduced. Hallam. Non obstante veredicto Etym: [LL.] (Law), a judgment sometimes entered by order of the court, for the plaintiff, notwithstanding a verdict for the defe…

The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.

constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.

The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.

ubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. Swift.

A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.

The act or practice of trifling. [R.] Bacon.