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In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective.

s, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications a subject or scheme.

To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

itious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project. We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth. Glanvill.

ed and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears. Ayliffe. Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other. Macaulay.

act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation. However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations. Addison.

rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects. "Restless at home , and ever prone to range." Dryden.

The quality or condition of being salvable; salvableness. [R.] In the Latin scheme of redemption, salvability was not possible outside the communion of the visible organization. A. V. G. Allen.

Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being. There is a certain scale of duties . . . which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion. Milton.

Of or pertaining to a scheme or a schema.

One given to forming schemes; a projector; a schemer. Swift.

To form a scheme or schemes.

Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. -- Schem"ing*ly, adv.

A schemer. [R.] Waterland.

ipturist with all his heart, if as yet with imperfect intelligence . . . he cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory. Palfrey.

; local. All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition. Story.

gically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought. The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day. Sir W. Hamilton. Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakespeare was; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, and se…

e world. -- To set to, to apply one's self to. -- To set up. (a) To begin business or a scheme of life; as, to set up in trade; to set up for one's self. (b) To profess openly; to make pretensions. Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part. Swift.…

n popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism. [Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, how…

men from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme. Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit. Pope.