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Pertaining to discipline. "Displinarian system." Milman.

A doctrinaire. J. H. Newman.

The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.

Episcopal. [R.] Wood.

One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler.

One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.

Relying on experiment or experience. "an experimentarian philosopher." Boyle. -- n.

A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.

Straight, as if in a line; as, the filarial flight of birds.

The presence of filariæ in the blood; infection with filariæ.

A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.

One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.

A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.

A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Shak.

Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.

In the manner of a glossary.

One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.

The principles, practices, or peculiarities of grammarians. [R.]

Gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort; common. [Obs.] "The gregarian soldiers." Howell.

Same as Grossular.