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; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry. He looked with indifference on rites, names, and forms of ecclesiastical polity. Macaulay.

Held back; holding back; ritardando.

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

Acritan. Owen.

Same as Adiaphorist.

A mass of meteoric iron.

A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.

A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand.

A yellowish oily volatile liquid, C5H11NO2, used in medicine as a heart stimulant and a vasodilator. The inhalation of its vapor instantly produces flushing of the face.

use. [Written by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

Same as Anchoret.

An anchoress. [R.]

A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron.

See under Calcite.

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

or and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel.

One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]

Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.

Having lobes like the ear; auriculate.