n. Same as Adiaphorist. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. [ F. anachorète, L. anachoreta, fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to go back, retire; &unr_; + &unr_; to give place, retire, &unr_; place; perh. akin to Skr. hā to leave. Cf. Anchor a hermit. ] One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [ Written by some authors anachoret. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An anchoress. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ The minerals castor and pollux were so named because found together on the island of Elba. See Castor and Pollux. ] (Min.) A variety of the mineral called petalite, from Elba. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; (sc. &unr_;), fr. chlwro`s light green. ] (Min.) The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chlorite slate, a schistose or slaty rock consisting of alumina, iron, and magnesia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chlorous + -ite. ] (Chem.) Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. diorite. See Diorism. ] (Min.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gr. &unr_; Bringer of morn. ] (Min.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina and manganese. It is generally of a rose-pink color, -- whence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. favorit favored, F. favori, fem. favorite, p. p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to favor. See Favor. ] 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

Committing to a wicked favorite
All public cares. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. [ Obs. ] Farquhar. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Sporting) The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child. “His favorite argument.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Calcium fluoride (CaF2), a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of hypochlorous acid; as, a calcium hypochloride. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. madréporite ] 1. (Paleon.) A fossil coral. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The madreporic plate of echinoderms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the writers of the Masora. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖adv. [ L., fr. memor mindful. See Memorable. ] By, or from, memory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. météorite. ] (Min.) A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aerolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Meteorites usually show a pitted surface with a fused crust, caused by the heat developed in their rapid passage through the earth's atmosphere. A meteorite may consist: 1. Of metallic iron, alloyed with a small percentage of nickel (meteoric iron, holosiderite). When etched this usually exhibits peculiar crystalline figures, called Widmanstätten figures. 2. Of a cellular mass of iron with imbedded silicates (mesosiderite or siderolite). 3. Of a stony mass of silicates with little iron (meteoric stone, sporadosiderite). 4. Of a mass without iron (asiderite). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A meteorite so small that it drifts down to Earth without becoming intensely heated in the earth's atmosphere. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Paleon.) A fossil millepore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. minor less. Cf. 2d Minor, 3. ] A Franciscan friar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. Norvège Norway . ] (Min.) A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A massive variety of apatite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. porite. See Pore, n. ] (Zool.) Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritidæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. po`ros a pore. ] (Zool.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., from Gr. swrei`ths (sc. syllogismo`s), properly, heaped up (hence, a heap of syllogisms), fr. swro`s a heap. ] (Logic) An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition, as in following example; -- [ 1913 Webster ]

The soul is a thinking agent;
A thinking agent can not be severed into parts;
That which can not be severed can not be destroyed;
Therefore the soul can not be destroyed. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When the series is arranged in the reverse order, it is called the Goclenian sorites, from Goclenius, a philosopher of the sixteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Destructive sorities. See under Destructive. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called by Berzelius from the Scandinavian god Thor. See Thor. ] (Min.) A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Paleon.) Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vigor strength. ] An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting. [ 1913 Webster ]