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The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication. Whatsoever is granted to the church for God's honor and the maintenance of his service, is granted to God. South.

The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.

ed by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. Shak.

In a malignant manner.

A mendicant or begging friar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One guilty of a misdemeanor. Sydney Smith.

Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

One of the Monandria.

A Linnæan class of plants embracing those having but a single stamen.

Same as Monandrous.

Of or pertaining to monandry; practicing monandry as a system of marriage.

Of or pertaining to the monandria; having but one stamen.

The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.

Having but one flower; one-flowered. Gray.

paraffin series; -- so called because of the nine carbon atoms in the molecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredient of ordinary kerosene.

Not malignant, as a disease.

Not ruminating; as, a nonruminant animal.

Not sonant. -- n.

A salt of the supposed oenanthic acid.

hereal salts were supposed to occasion the peculiar bouquet, or aroma, of old wine. Cf. OEnanthylic. OEnanthic acid, an acid obtained from oenanthic ether by the action of alkalies. -- OEnanthic ether, an ethereal substance (not to be confused with the bouquet, or aroma, of wine) found in wine lees, and consisting of…