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One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.

. Meantime there is a great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence. R. W. Emerson.

Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos. Centrifugal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is from a center.

The property or quality of being centrifugal. R. W. Emerson.

One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.

An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning. T. Moore.

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

s, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies. According to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keep it [the Passover]. Num…

An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much empoyed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.

An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.

A process of fecundation in which the pollen tube penetrates to the embryosac through the tissue of the chalaza, instead of entering through the micropyle. It was originally discovered by Treub in Casuarina, and has since been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceæ and Juglandaceæ. Partial chalazogamy is fo…

The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm. [Archaic] Between us and there is fixed a great chaos. Luke xvi. 26 (Rhemish Trans. ).

a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial;

ates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish. -- Char`la*tan"ic*al*ly, adv.

Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper.

y. The 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.]