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In this or that manner; on this wise. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. Gen. vi. 22. Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth. Milton.

See Tussock. [Obs.]

An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.

Same as Ailantus.

Same as Amaranth.

Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye.

Pertaining to the Carthusian.

A genus of Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features.

A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.

To make or become enthusiastic. [Slang]

divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse. Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination. Locke.

One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person. En…

An enthusiast; a zealot. [Obs.]

Filled with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art. "Enthusiastical raptures." Calamy. -- En*thu`si*as"tic*al*ly, adv. A young man . . . of a visionary and enthusiastic character. W. Irving.

A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines.

In early Christian and eccesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words

Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories.

The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population.