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s called Reformed Presbyterians) who refused to recognize laws or institutions which they believed contrary to the kingdom of Christ, but who now avail themselves of political rights.

The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed.

One who believes in casualism.

One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.

A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is appare…

One who believes in the law of universal causation.

African spotted hyena. -- Cave lion (Zoöl.), a fossil lion found in the caves of Europe, believed to be a large variety of the African lion. -- Bone cave. See under Bone.

A captious or frivolous objection. All the cavils of prejudice and unbelief. Shak.

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

als, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Acts xi. 26.

A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings.

The body of Christian believers. [Obs.] To Walys fled the christianitee Of olde Britons. Chaucer.

To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian. The pagans began to Christianize. Latham.

A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. "When they had ordained them elders in every church." Acts xiv. 23.

The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination. [Obs.] Dunglison.

The Holy Spirit, -- reffering to his office of comforting believers. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26.

which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept. He [Herodotus] says that the sun draws or attracts the water; a metaphorical term obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the…

g; as, a concession to build a canal. This is therefore a concession , that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain. Sharp. When a lover becomes satisfied by small compliances without further pursuits, then expect to find popular assemblies content with small concessions. Swift.…