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One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence. Called also Ubiquitist, Ubiquitary.

One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the uniformitarian doctrine.

The uniformitarian doctrine.

Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.

The doctrines of Unitarians.

To change or turn to Unitarian views.

Having one degree of freedom or variability.

Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.

The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. Bentham.

health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge. The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay.

The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.

The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

Changeable; changing; fickle. [Obs.] He is variant, he abit [abides] nowhere. Chaucer.

One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.

The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.

One who coins words. [R.] Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian. Fitzed. Hall.

Of or pertaining to a vestiary or vestments.

One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon.

A vicar. [Obs.] Marston.

Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidæ. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each s…