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A sectary. [R.] T. Warton.

The tenets or principles of the secularists.

One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.…

One who manages or operates a semaphore.

Half Christianized.

The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.

A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.

A sententiary. Barnas Sears (Life of Luther).

An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.

Doctrines of the Shakers.

Sherry. [Obs.] Shak.

One who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The state of having a sinecure.

One who has a sinecure.

One who affects singularity. [Obs.] A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow.

Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.

days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit.

A small instrument containing a minute particle of a radium compound mounted in front of a fluorescent screen and viewed with magnifying lenses. The tiny flashes produced by the continual bombardment of the screen by the a rays are thus rendered visible. -- Spin*thar`i*scop"ic (#), a.

Nearly square. Pennant.

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