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anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; - - often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind. Eased [from] the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear. Milton. Sing, and I 'll ease thy shoulders of thy load. Dryden.…

nstantinopolitan (without the later addition of the filioque, which, with the doctrine it represents, the church decisively rejects), baptizes infants with trine immersion, makes confirmation follow immediately upon baptism, administers the Communion in both kinds (using leavened bread) and to infants as well as adults…

An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.

A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.

rs for England, a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to consider and report upon the affairs of the Established Church. -- Ecclesiastical courts, courts for maintaining the discipline of the Established Church; -- called also Christian courts. [Eng.] -- Ecclesiastical law, a combination of civil a…

A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound. The babbling echo mocks the hounds. Shak. The woods shall answer, and the echo ring. Pope.

A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions.

A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.

in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.

Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.

delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men. Milton.

To exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or merriment.

The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits. To burn, or To hang, in effigy, to burn or to hang an i…

An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition. Sir W. Scott.

A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.

A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.

Sudden; hasty. [Obs.] "Ejaculatory repentances, that take us by fits and starts." L'Estrange.

An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.

that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.