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stabulary. See Constable, n., 2. -- High commission court,a court of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England erected and united to the regal power by Queen Elizabeth in

or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. Prior. The hobbling versification, the mean diction. Jeffreys.

diac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune.

ctice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events.

One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell.

A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.

l. The phrase now used is, "No bill," "No true bill," or "Not found," though in some jurisdictions "Ignored" is still used. Wharton (Law Dict. ). Burn.

lplessness. [R.] Latimer. Logical impossibility, a condition or statement involving contradiction or absurdity; as, that a thing can be and not be at the same time. See Principle of Contradiction, under Contradiction.

s upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! Swift.

inate in rank; as, an inferior officer. Inferior court (Law), a court subject to the jurisdiction of another court known as the superior, or higher, court. -- Inferior letter, Inferior figure (Print.), a small letter or figure standing at the bottom of the line (opposed to superior letter or figure), as in A2, Bn, 2 a…

compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.

The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.

tration. -- Instance Court (Law), the Court of Admiralty acting within its ordinary jurisdiction, as distinguished from its action as a prize court.

Belonging to an interdiction; prohibitory.

y. He knows His end with mine involved. Milton. The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction. Tillotson.

The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court. Our Savior disputes not here the judicature, for that was not his office, but the morality, of divorce. Milton.

- Julian period, a chronological period of 7,980 years, combining the solar, lunar, and indiction cycles (28 x 19 x 15 = 7,980), being reckoned from the year 4713 B. C., when the first years of these several cycles would coincide, so that if any year of the period be divided by 28, 19, or 15, the remainder will be the…

Jurisdiction. [Obs.]

Having jurisdiction. Milton.

Dominion or jurisdiction of a khan.