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n inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

aneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.

Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]

Opposing or destroying contagion.

The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm. "The contagion of example." Eikon Basilike. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

Affected by contagion.

One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.

Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

cability depends on the transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required.

In a contagious manner.

Quality of being contagious.

Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.

The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

, Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred writings.

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.

Same Hagiographa.

The invocation or worship of saints.

One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer. Tylor. Hagiologists have related it without scruple. Southey.

The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints. J. H. Newman.