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ped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, gemera, etc.

lies, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. (Science) See under Artifitial.

keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head. Mother of science! now I feel thy power Within me clear, not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

ared. Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience. T. Fuller.

The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.

An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members. They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson. He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original member…

In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor.

by the use of -er, more, or less; as, brighter, more bright, or less bright. Comparative sciences, those which are based on a comprehensive comparison of the range of objects or facts in any branch or department, and which aim to study out and treat of the fundamental laws or systems of relation pervading them; as, co…

Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken. [Obs.]

grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience. He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction. Clarendon.

Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. That no compunctious vistings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Shak.

u think me too conceited Or to passion quickly heated. Swift. Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness. Bentley.

The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.

quantity, a physical object or a collection of such objects. Davies & Peck. -- Concrete science, a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws. -- Concrete sound or movement of the voice, one which slides continuously up or down, as distinguished from a discrete…

To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience. Every tongue shall confess to God. Rom. xiv. 11.

Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person. The advice of wise and conscientious men. Prescott.

In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.

The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.

Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just. Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction. Sir H. Wotton.

ic place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music.