Search the Dictionary

One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.

A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. Bp. Morton.

A gothamist.

Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.

A Gothic idiom.

To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.

A hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.

The deification of self. [R.]

Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.

An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.

Belonging to the Moesogoths, a branch of the Goths who settled in Moesia.

One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.

Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.

Of, pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races. "Ancestral Pangothic stock." Earle.

The Scandinavian Goths. See the Note under Goths.

One of the West Goths. See the Note under Goth. -- Vis`i*goth"ic, a.

ble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi…

at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. opposite, or in the place of.…

poses of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin.