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ry, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. "Agrestic behavior." Gregory.

Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.] Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser.

natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. [Recent] J. S. Mill.

One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to egoist.

Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to Ant: egoistic or Ant: selfish. Bain. -- Al`tru*is"tic*al*ly, adv.

em.), a process of fermentation in starch or sugar in which amylic alcohol is produced. Gregory.

The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms. Chambers.

Nearness; propinquity. [R.] J. Gregory.

Stand off, or begone. [Obs.] Aroint thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak.

The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.

The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical. [R.] Hare.

Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come ~; begone; take ~. And the Lord said . . . Away, get thee down. Exod. xix. 24.

Undisguised. " Bald egotism." Lowell.

, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

llegitimate. The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

Oregon; -- a nickname.