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Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.

To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select. Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell.

rounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society. We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind. Dryden.

By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.

1, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries. Druid stones, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circl…

The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor. Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom. J. Adams.

A choice or select body; the flower; as, the élite of society.

the deep." Dryden. Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. Burke.

grosser parts. The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors under. Landor. Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity]. Addison. The essence of Addison's humor is irony. Courthope.

of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth. Prescott.

uropeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages. A state of society . . . changed and Europenized. Lubbock.

to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.

To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

e consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe. The whole vast fabric of society. Macaulay.

A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good…

truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church. Which to believe of her, Must be a faith that reason without miracle Could never plant in me. Shak. Now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. Gal. i. 23.

wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society. H. Spencer.

Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society. Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.

Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal. "A federative society." Burke.

A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.