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Haste; hurry. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.

Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.

Fraternization. [R.] Jefferson.

The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.

A doubling; duplication; repetition. [R.] Boyle.

owth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable. Germination apparatus, an apparatus for malting grain.

The act of uniting with glue; sticking together.

The act of governing; government [Obs.] I. Watts.

ating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. Addison.

The act or state of hibernating. Evelyn.

See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.

The act of combining with hydrogen, or the state of being so combined.

gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge. The illumination which a bright genius giveth to his work. Felton.

s. Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination. Glanvill. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present. Bacon.

Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.

Idealism. J. Grote.

A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation. [R.] Good.

Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiati…