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The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper. Magnetic element, one of the hypothetical elementary portions of which a magnet is regarded as made up.

wish; supplicatory. [R.] Sacrifices . . . distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical. Bp. Law.

The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics.

sting not in words, but in realities. [Obs.] Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.

ular persons, to be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate. Tillotson. Aristotle is for poetical justice. Dennis.

ace. Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. 2 Sam. xi. 15. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know. J. C. Shairp.

rfeited. These are the forgeries of jealously. Shak. The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. Waterland.

A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator. [R.] "The . . . glossators of Aristotle." Milman.

A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites. Lindley.

e of the apostolic succession, and hold, in general, to a sacramental presence in the Eucharist, to baptismal regeneration, and to the sole validity of Episcopal ordination. They attach much importance to ceremonies and symbols in worship. Low-churchmen lay less stress on these points, and, in many instances, reject al…

and the king of England. -- Holy bark. See Cascara sagrada. -- Holy Communion. See Eucharist. -- Holy family (Art), a picture in which the infant Christ, his parents, and others of his family are represented. -- Holy Father, a title of the pope. -- Holy Ghost (Theol.),the third person of the Trinity; the Comforte…

The eucharist. [Archaic] Rom. of R. Tennyson.

Embodied in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist. [Obs.] Cranmer.

d union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation.

Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming. The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries. Glanvill.

erality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy.

condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist.

A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia.

The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia.

See Aristotle's lantern.