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d or visionary theory. E. Everett. The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of isms which no man can number. S. G. Goodrich.

One of a sect of Mohammedans who favored the pretensions of the family of Mohammed ben Ismael, of the house Ali.

The principles or measures of abolitionists. Wilberforce.

The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.

ne of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [Obs.] Baxter.

Accidental character or effect. Ruskin.

Affected refusal; coyness.

The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. Nichol.

A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.

Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting.

Lack or defect of pulsation.

The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

Religious indifference.

The doctrine of æsthetics; æsthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. Lowell.

A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.

conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

Contention for a prize; a contest. [Obs.] Blount.