n. 1. 1 any Christian religion that believes the second coming of Christ is imminent.
Syn. -- Second Adventism [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to adventitia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. adventitius. ] 1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent.
Syn. -- accidental; casual; incidental; additional; supervenient; foreign. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; not hereditary. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Med.) Occurring in an unusual place or arising from an external source. Stedman 25 [ PC ]

-- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Accidental. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Adventitious. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A post of security or defense. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Into the castle's tower,
The only Aventine that now is left him. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. circumventio. ] The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

A school in which he learns sly circumvention. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. contravention. ] The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Warrants in contravention of the acts of Parliament. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

In contravention of all his marriage stipulations. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent. “Conventical wages.” Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conventical prior. See Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conventiculum, dim. of conventus: cf. F. conventicule. See Convent, n. ] 1. A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecution. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sort of men who . . . attend its [ the curch of England's ] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who supports or frequents conventicles. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conventio: cf. F. convention. See Convene, v. i. ] 1. The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition. [ 1913 Webster ]

The conventions or associations of several particles of matter into bodies of any certain denomination. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are thousands now
Such women, but convention beats them down. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical. [ 1913 Webster ]

He set himself to the making of good laws in a grand convention of his nobles. Sir R. Baker. [ 1913 Webster ]

A convention of delegates from all the States, to meet in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of reserving the federal system, and correcting its defects. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eng. Hist) An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our gratitude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments. [ 1913 Webster ]

This convention, I think from my soul, is nothing but a stipulation for national ignominy; a truce without a suspension of hostilities. Ld. Chatham. [ 1913 Webster ]

The convention with the State of Georgia has been ratified by their Legislature. T. Jefferson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conventionalis: cf. F. conventionnel. ] 1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. “Conventional decorum.” Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Fine Arts) (a) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules. (b) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to make conventional.
Syn. -- conventionalize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standard. F. W. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fine Arts) The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who adheres to a convention or treaty. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is governed by conventionalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Conventionalities The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fine Arts) (a) The act of making conventional. (b) The state of being conventional. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Fine Arts) To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Conventionalized p. pr. & vb. n. Conventionalizing. ] 1. To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage. [ Also spelled conventionalise. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fine Arts) (a) To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others. (b) To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a conventional manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants. [ Obs. ] R. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who belongs to a convention or assembly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ AS. &aemacr_;fentīd. See Tide. ] The time of evening; evening. [ Poetic. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. eventilatus, p. p. of eventilare to fan. See Ventilate. ] 1. To winnow out; to fan. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To discuss; to ventilate. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of eventilating; discussion. [ Obs. ] Bp. Berkely. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to breathe rapidly and deeply; to breathe excessively; as, The mountain climber started to hyperventilate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act or process of hyperventilating; breathing rapidly and deeply. [ PJC ]

2. (Med.) A condition in which alveolar carbon dioxide concentration is markedly lower than normal, usually due to breathing rapidly and deeply. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. interventio an interposition: cf. F. intervention. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of intervening; interposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. Holder. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; -- the intervention of one state in the affairs of another is typically unwelcome by the state being intervened in, but some cases of mediation between states may be called intervention. Opposed to nonintervention. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Civil Law) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being invented. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being inventible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inventio: cf. F. invention. See Invent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

As the search of it [ truth ] is the duty, so the invention will be the happiness of man. Tatham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention; she patented five inventions. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Thought; idea. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Filling their hearers
With strange invention. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. [ 1913 Webster ]

They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Fine Arts, Rhet., etc.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Invention of the cross (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inventive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. inventif. ] Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the time of life between 70 and 80.
Syn. -- seventies. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obvention, fr. obvenire to come before or in the way of, to befall; ob (see Ob-) + venire to come: cf. F. obvention. ] The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering. [ Obs. ] “Tithes and other obventions.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to prevent or hinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. prévention. ] 1. The act of going, or state of being, before. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The greater the distance, the greater the prevention. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. [ Obs. ] Hammond. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Prejudice; prepossession. [ A Gallicism ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to prevent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. préventif. ] 1. Going before; preceding. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Any previous counsel or preventive understanding. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Physic is either curative or preventive. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Preventive service, the duty performed by the armed police in guarding the coast against smuggling. [ Eng ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a preventive manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Civil Law) A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge. Burrill. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]