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rman parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the members of a diocese or congregation. This plan was successfully opposed by…

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute. A calencar exacity calculated than any othe. North.

Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

ns that shall satisfy given conditions. -- Calculus of operations, that branch of mathematical logic that treats of all operations that satisfy given conditions. -- Calculus of probabilities, the science that treats of the computation of the probabilities of events, or the application of numbers to chance. -- Calcul…

One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.

jacent parts of the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes. Abney.

hich they believed contrary to the kingdom of Christ, but who now avail themselves of political rights.

organization formed at Naples, Italy, early in the 19th century, and used partly for political ends and partly for practicing extortion, violence, etc. -- Ca*mor"rist (#), n.

Political operations preceding an election; a canvass. [Cant, U. S.]

lls. Canned goods, a general name for fruit, vegetables, meat, or fish, preserved in hermetically sealed cans.

the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. Hock.

se of generality. -- Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly…

A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.

An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl. Totten.

One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. The day when he was a canter and a rebel. Macaulay.

nciently the tenor, now the soprano. Canto fermo ( Etym: [It.] (Mus.), the plain ecclesiastical chant in cathedral service; the plain song.

Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.

In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.

The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.

A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by st…