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Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. "The true peripatetic school." Howell.

system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained. [Books] of Aristotle and his philosophie. Chaucer. We shall in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our school. Locke.

One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist. Dryden.

lood; poverty of ideas. Poverty grass (Bot.), a name given to several slender grasses (as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.

professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.

Real presence (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however in the sense of transubstantia…

of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).

make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure. Chaucer. Aristippus being reprehended of luxury by one that was not rich, for that he gave six crowns for a small fish. Bacon. Pardon me for reprehending thee. Shak. In which satire human vices, ignorance, and errors . . . are severely rep…

upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and…

f, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rusa, which includes the sambur deer (Rusa Aristotelis) of India. Rusine antler (Zoöl.), an antler with the brow tyne simple, and the beam forked at the tip.

ad of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper.

ds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley.

se German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.

An East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three prongs. Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R. equina).

eme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.

The tenets or principles of the secularists.

A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible. Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper. Krauth- Fleming.

blance to a tongue with its root. -- Serpent withe (Bot.), a West Indian climbing plant (Aristolochia odoratissima). -- Tree serpent (Zoöl.), any species of African serpents belonging to the family Dendrophidæ.

The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia Serpentaria).