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The confusion of ideas and conceptions under the same term painfully inturbidates his theology. Coleridge.

ity among Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology. Schaff-Herzog.

that produces inflammation. Counter irritant. See under Counter. -- Pure irritant (Toxicology), a poison that produces inflammation without any corrosive action upon the tissues.

Introductory; especially, introductory to the study of theology.

Any representation or suggestion of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art; as:

ry for the due administration of justice. The talents of Abelard were not confined to theology, jurisprudence, philosophy. J. Warton. Medical jurisprudence, that branch of juridical law which concerns questions of medicine.

The upper division of the European Triassic. See Chart of Geology.

A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.

The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.

te, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology.

Of or pertaining to laryngology.

One who applies himself to laryngology.

idely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone.

A panegyric; a eulogy. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).

One versed in lexicology.

nd and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oölite. See the Chart of Geology.

One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology. The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give gratuitous advice to the neighboring poor. Johnson.

One versed in lichenology.

he science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.