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One who advocates or practices opportunism. [Recent]

e concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. [Recent] A. Trollope.

In recent times, same as Trousers.

The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina.

nd sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests. [Recent] M. Arnold.

ndition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3. [Recent] Carlyle. On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, -- this is Philistinism. M. Arnold.

Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age.

By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.

By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.

In the broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of recent painters, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo- impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impre…

Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.

the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with recent composers often synonymous with overture. The last Georgic was a good prelude to the Ænis Addison. The cause is more than the prelude, the effect is more than the sequel, of the fact. Whewell.

A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.

The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.

emisia) which inhabits the regions of Western North America and lives among sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely a variety of the common cottontail, or wood rabbit. -- Sage hen (Zoöl.), the female of the sage grouse. Sage sparrow (Zoöl.), a small sparrow (Amphispiza Belli, var Nevadensis) which i…

To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea. [Recent]

earned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant. [Recent]

A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.

represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette. [Recent] A flock of roasting vultures silhouetted on the sky. The Century.

Snobs, collectively. [Hybrid & Recent] C. Kingsley.