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Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. Excommunication or other censure of the church. Bp. Burnet.

r away from a fixed or movable center. -- Center sun (Astron.), a name given to a hypothetical body about which Mädler supposed the solar system together with all the stars in the Milky Way, to be revolving. A point near Alcyone in the Pleiades was supposed to possess characteristics of the position of such a body.…

nce in a century; - - hence the name. See Agave. -- The Magdeburg Centuries, an ecclesiastical history of the first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes, compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at Magdeburg.

Sophistical.

A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.

back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle. [Written also chasible, and chesible.]

subject's eye. Dryden. Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]

It is a coloriess crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.

The ninth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of November with a part of December.

Estrange. To chop logic, to dispute with an affected use of logical terms; to argue sophistically.

The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.

Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. Blackstone.

Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion

An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.

That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.

rs, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.

Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.

The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds. [Formerly written also cinnamule.]