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Gracillent
Gracile Grac"ile, Gracillent Grac"il*lenta. [L. gracilis,
gracilentus.]
Slender; thin. [Obs.] --Bailey.
MillenarianMillenarian Mil`le*na"ri*an, a. [See Millenary.]
Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the
millennium, or to the Millenarians. Millenarian
Millenarian Mil`le*na"ri*an, n.
One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a
thousand years; a Chiliast.
Millenarianism
Millenarianism Mil`le*na"ri*an*ism, Millenarism
Mil"le*na*rism, n.
The doctrine of Millenarians.
Millenarism
Millenarianism Mil`le*na"ri*an*ism, Millenarism
Mil"le*na*rism, n.
The doctrine of Millenarians.
MillenaryMillenary Mil"le*na*ry, n.
The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a
Millenarian.``During that millenary.' --Hare. Millennial
Millennial Mil*len"ni*al, a.
Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years;
as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
Millennialism
Millennialism Mil*len"ni*al*ism, Millenniarism
Mil*len"ni*a*rism, n.
Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.
Millennialist
Millennialist Mil*len"ni*al*ist, n.
One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a
thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal
prevalence of Christianity for a long period.
Millenniarism
Millennialism Mil*len"ni*al*ism, Millenniarism
Mil*len"ni*a*rism, n.
Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.
Millennist
Millennist Mil"len*nist (m[i^]l"l[e^]n*n[i^]st), n.
One who believes in the millennium. [Obs.] --Johnson.
MillenniumMillennium Mil*len"ni*um (m[i^]l*l[e^]n"n[i^]*[u^]m), n. [LL.,
fr. L. mille a thousand + annus a year. See Mile, and
Annual.]
A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in
the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation,
during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the
world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will
reign on earth in person with his saints. O DilleniiPrickly Prick"ly, a.
Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with
prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
Prickly ash (Bot.), a prickly shrub (Xanthoxylum
Americanum) with yellowish flowers appearing with the
leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic.
The southern species is X. Carolinianum. --Gray.
Prickly heat (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of
red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of
the parts affected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat
glands, and is often brought on by overheating the skin in
hot weather.
Prickly pear (Bot.), a name given to several plants of the
cactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of
fleshy, leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly
joints inserted upon each other. The sessile flowers have
many petals and numerous stamens. The edible fruit is a
large pear-shaped berry containing many flattish seeds.
The common species of the Northern Atlantic States is
Opuntia vulgaris. In the South and West are many others,
and in tropical America more than a hundred more. O.
vulgaris, O. Ficus-Indica, and O. Tuna are abundantly
introduced in the Mediterranean region, and O. Dillenii
has become common in India.
Prickly pole (Bot.), a West Indian palm (Bactris
Plumierana), the slender trunk of which bears many rings
of long black prickles.
Prickly withe (Bot.), a West Indian cactaceous plant
(Cereus triangularis) having prickly, slender, climbing,
triangular stems.
Prickly rat (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of South
American burrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and
allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp
spines. Premillennial
Premillennial Pre`mil*len"ni*al, a.
Previous to the millennium.
Pure villenagePure Pure, a. [Compar. Purer; superl. Purest.] [OE. pur,
F. pur, fr. L. purus; akin to putus pure, clear, putare to
clean, trim, prune, set in order, settle, reckon, consider,
think, Skr. p? to clean, and perh. E. fire. Cf. Putative.]
1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free
from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed;
as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
The pure fetters on his shins great. --Chaucer.
A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy. --I.
Watts.
2. Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent;
guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons. ``Keep thyself
pure.' --1 Tim. v. 22.
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a
pure heart, and of a good conscience. --1 Tim. i. 5.
3. Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or
pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and
actions. ``Pure religion and impartial laws.' --Tickell.
``The pure, fine talk of Rome.' --Ascham.
Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure
as any that ancient or modern history records.
--Macaulay.
4. (Script.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon
the pure table before the Lord. --Lev. xxiv.
6.
5. (Phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of
some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. ``The
inhabitants were pure-impure pagans.' --Fuller.
Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue, under Methylene.
Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry.
Pure mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats
of the principles of the science, or contradistinction to
applied mathematics, which treats of the application of
the principles to the investigation of other branches of
knowledge, or to the practical wants of life. See
Mathematics. --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. )
Pure villenage (Feudal Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain
services at the will of the lord. --Blackstone.
Syn: Unmixed; clear; simple; real; true; genuine;
unadulterated; uncorrupted; unsullied; untarnished;
unstained; stainless; clean; fair; unspotted; spotless;
incorrupt; chaste; unpolluted; undefiled; immaculate;
innocent; guiltless; guileless; holy. VillenageVillenage Vil"len*age, n. [See Villanage.] (Feudal Law)
Villanage. --Blackstone. villenageVillanage Vil"lan*age (?; 48), n. [OF. villenage, vilenage.
See Villain.]
1. (Feudal Law) The state of a villain, or serf; base
servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest
services for the lord. [In this sense written also
villenage, and villeinage.]
I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a
perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted.
--Milton.
Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the
curious so late as the days of the Stuarts.
--Macaulay.
2. Baseness; infamy; villainy. [Obs.] --Dryden. Villenous
Villenous Vil"len*ous, a.
Of or pertaining to a villein.
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