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Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity.

Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business. [Colloq.] Dickens.

f the Oratory (R. C. Ch.), a society of priests founded by St. Philip Neri, living in community, and not bound by a special vow. The members are called also oratorians.

edom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.

rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.

To overcome by importunity. Johnson.

; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.

The all-containing soul. [R.] That unity, that oversout, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other. Emerson.

who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity. "Pray ye, pacify yourself." Shak.

A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.

troy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.

community; fellowship; association. [Obs.] Shak.

reveal. Bacon. It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community. L'Estrange.

sons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy. Win the noble Brutus to our party. Shak. The peace both parties want is like to last. Dryden.

n. Patron saint (R. C. Ch.), a saint regarded as the peculiar protector of a country, community, church, profession, etc., or of an individual.

The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. Whatly.

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. 25. Before many peoples, and nations, and tongues. Rev. x. 11. Earth's monar…

To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy. Johnson.

not of a freehold nature. -- Personal identity (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness. -- Personal pronoun (Gram.), one of the pronouns I, thou, he, she, it, and their plurals. -- Personal representatives (Law), the executors or administrators of…