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A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ. Hoblyn.

Relating to erethism.

The state of being eunuch. Bp. Hall.

solute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.

A believer in fetiches. He was by nature a fetichist. H. Holbeach.

Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism. A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread. G. Eliot.

See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a.

A chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it. Knight.

A Buddhist priest. See Fo.

Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people. W. H. Seward.

Release; deliverance; freedom. Spenser.

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.

That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.

See Graphoscope.

One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.

An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.

A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.…

A ruler of one division of a heptarchy. [Written also heptarch.]

The state or quality of being heteromorphic.

The principles or authority of a hierarchy. The more dominant hierarchism of the West. Milman.