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The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A. Marvell.

- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. J. S. Mill.

me are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.

of the apostles which are addressed to all the faithful, and not to a particular church; being those of James, Peter, Jude, and John.

The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity. Jer. Taylor.

The state or quality of being catholic; universality.

The quality of being catholic; universality; catholicity.

A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.

Capable of being caused.

or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place.

The state of being causeless.

by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane. -- Caustic lime. See under Lime. -- Caustic potash, Caustic soda (Chem.), the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same. -- Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. --…

The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.

The quality of being caustic; causticity.

The quality of being cautious.

The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell.

stial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appoined by heaven. S. W. Williams.

The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. "The celibacy of the clergy." Hallom.

the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.

The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite. Milman.