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ve in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity. The infidel writer is a great enemy to society. V. Knox.

hristianity. There is, indeed, no doubt but that vanity is one of the principal causes of infidelity. V. Knox.

usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see. Bishop in partibus [infidelium] (R. C. Ch.), a bishop of a see which does not actually exist; one who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction. Shipley. -- Titular bishop (R. C. Ch.), a term officially substituted in 1882 for bishop i…

ief statement. I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus.

te hid under a crust of dross. Addison. Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever. Prescott.

Among Mohammedans, a warrior champion or veteran, esp. in the destruction of infidels.

An infidel; -- a term applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion, especially Christrians. Byron.

especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity.

A religious war against infidels or Mohammedan heretics; also, any bitter war or crusade for a principle or belief.

eligion and seriousness vanished all at once, and a spirit of liberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it. Atterbury.

A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively. [Written also panim and paynim.] Peacham.

Delusion; illusion; trick. [Obs.] The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture. Bp. Warburton.

vine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker.

Not Christian; not converted to the Christian faith; infidel.

Not possessing faith; infidel. [R.] Milton. -- Un*faith"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*faith"ful*ness, n.

To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity. [Obs.] Bacon. God is more powerful to exact subjection and to vindicate rebellion. Bp. Pearson.

farthingale Shak. On her white breast a sparkling cross swore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Pope.

able calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity. R. Hall. General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace. Marshall.

A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest. [Obs.] Shak.