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The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals.

Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, periotic.

Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone.

Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. Hooper.

The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.

Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs; flowering.

genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of morals or manners. "A piece of pharisaism." Hammond.

listine, 3. [Recent] Carlyle. On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, -- this is Philistinism. M. Arnold.

To play the philosopher; to moralize. [Obs.] Barrow.

A retrograde metamorphosis of the floral organs to the condition of leaves.

to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man. Labor, in the physical world, is . . . employed in putting objects in motion. J. S.…

In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally. I am not now treating physically of light or colors. Locke.

Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.

be plenary or full. I. Watts. Plenary indulgence (R. C. Ch.), an entire remission of temporal punishment due to, or canonical penance for, all sins. -- Plenary inspiration. (Theol.) See under Inspiration.

o an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral.

pression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. Pointed arch (Arch.), an arch with a pointed crown. -- Pointed style (Arch.), a name given to that style of architecture in which the pointed arch is the predominant feature; -- more commo…

That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin. Poison ash. (Bot.) (a) A tree of the genus Amyris (A. balsamifera) found in the West Indies, from the trunk of which a black liquor distills, supposed to have poisonous qualities. (b) The poison sumac (Rhus venenata…

Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.

otection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.

, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement. The land was polluted with blood. Ps. cvi. 38 Wickedness . . . hath polluted the whole earth. 2 Esd. xv. 6.