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Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida. -- n.

An inhabitant of the moon.

The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria. Malarial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partial…

Virgin Mary, or sometimes to Mary, Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII. Of all the Marian martyrs, Mr. Philpot was the best-born gentleman. Fuller. Maid Marian. See Maidmarian in the Vocabulary.

See Materialist. [Obs.]

Belonging, or pertaining, to Megara, a city of ancient Greece. Megarian, or Megaric, school, a school of philosophy established at Megara, after the death of Socrates, by his disciples, and remarkable for its logical subtlety.

A mercenary. [Obs.]

Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.

The doctrine of Millenarians.

Of or pertaining to miscellanies. Shaftesbury. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the Monomya. -- n.

An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.

The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism. Hixley.

things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.

The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism. M. Arnold.

One of a group of philologists who apply phonetic laws more widely and strictly than was formerly done, and who maintain that these laws admit of no real exceptions. --Ne`o*gram*mat"ic*al (#), a.

A person ninety years old.

One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.

A person eighty years, or more, of age.