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vinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.

One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.

elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist. S. Davidson.

Relating to Elohim as a name of God; -- said of passages in the Old Testament.

Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them. The Elzevir editions are valued for their neatness, and the elegant small types used. Br…

A Linnæan class of plants having nine stamens.

Having nine stamens.

the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.

One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles. Epistle side, the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel. One sees the pulpit on the epistle side. R. Browning.

A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament. M. Arnold.

An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.

agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.

Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.

The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.

Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens. A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted. D. H. Barnes.

Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.

The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed. [Obs. in the U.S., Rare in Eng.]

Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants. feral child, not raised by humans