‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray. ] (Zool.) An order of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formed fr. L. adesse to be present; ad + esse to be. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Madagascar. Population (2000) = 1, 000, 000. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. Apollinaris, fr. Apollo. ] (Rom. Antiq.) In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arenarius, fr. arena sand. ] Sandy; as, arenarious soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attitudinizes; a posture maker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A practicing of attitudes; posture making. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. bis twice + pinna feather. ] (Zool.) The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. L. carina keel. ] (Zool.) A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. catenarius, fr. catena a chain. See Chain. ] Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Catilinarius. ] Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to a hundred years. -- n. A person a hundred years old. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being columnar. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. kwna`rion. ] (Anat.) The pineal gland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Concubinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

The married and concubinarian, as well as looser clergy. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a large genus of rusty-spored agarics having prominent cortinae.
Syn. -- genus Cortinaria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a kitchen or cooking. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Denarii [ L. See 2d Denier. ] A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the “penny” of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to discipline. “Displinarian system.” Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A doctrinaire. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia.
Syn. -- genus Drynaria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an extraordinary manner or degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being extraordinary. [ R. ] Gov. of the Tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A natural family including ovenbirds.
Syn. -- family Furnariidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The type genus of the Furnariidae, comprising the South American ovenbirds.
Syn. -- genus Furnarius. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A genus of chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; it includes species formerly placed in the genus Gymnadeniopsis.
Syn. -- genus Habenaria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. In a imaginary manner; in imagination. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Lamina. ] (Bot.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Lamina. ] (Paleon.) A broad-leafed fossil alga. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. latitudinaire. ] 1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lax in moral or religious principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were called “men of latitude;” and upon this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name of latitudinarians. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Theol.) One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Ammonius Saccas ] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion. J. S. Harford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers: spurred snapdragon.
Syn. -- genus Linaria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ So called because formerly supposed to occur at Linares, in Spain. ] (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. lucerna a lamp. ] (Zool.) A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida. -- n. One of the Lucernarida. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Lucernaria. ] (Zool.) (a) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa. (b) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true Lucernarida and the Discophora. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A small genus of European herbs of the mustard family, including the herb honesty (Lunaria annua), which is also called moonwort and lunary.
Syn. -- genus Lunaria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Lunar, Luna. ] An inhabitant of the moon. [ 1913 Webster ]