English Dictionary: social organization | by the DICT Development Group |
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Saccular \Sac"cu*lar\, a. Like a sac; sacciform. | |
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Sea colewort \Sea" cole"wort`\ (Bot.) Sea cabbage. | |
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Secular \Sec"u*lar\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[82]culier.] 1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century. The secular year was kept but once a century. --Addison. 2. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe. 3. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. --Milton. 4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest. He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy. --Prescett. 5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical. I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer. {Secular equation} (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for. {Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like. {Secular music}, any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses. {Secular hymn} [or] {poem}, a hymn or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games. | |
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Secular \Sec"u*lar\, n. 1. (Eccl.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. --Burke. 2. (Eccl.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir. --Busby. 3. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman. | |
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Canon \Can"on\, n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F. canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL. canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr. Gr. [?] rule, rod, fr. [?], [?], red. See {Cane}, and cf. {Canonical}.] 1. A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. --Shak. 2. (Eccl.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. --Hock. 3. The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the {sacred canon}, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See {Canonical books}, under {Canonical}, a. 4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. 5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. 6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. 7. (Mus.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See {Imitation}. 8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church. 9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also {ear} and {shank}. Note: [See Illust. of {Bell}.] --Knight. 10. (Billiards) See {Carom}. {Apostolical canons}. See under {Apostolical}. {Augustinian canons}, {Black canons}. See under {Augustinian}. {Canon capitular}, {Canon residentiary}, a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year). {Canon law}. See under {Law}. {Canon of the Mass} (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes. {Honorary canon}, a canon who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours. {Minor canon} (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a prebend. {Regular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon. {Secular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours. | |
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Canoness \Can"on*ess\, n. [Cf. LL. canonissa.] A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter. {Regular canoness}, one bound by the poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. {Secular canoness}, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter. | |
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Clergy \Cler"gy\, n. [OE. clergie, clergi, clerge, OF. clergie, F. clergie (fr. clerc clerc, fr. L. clericus priest) confused with OF. clergi[82], F. clerg[82], fr. LL. clericatus office of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL. scholar, clerc. Both the Old French words meant clergy, in sense 1, the former having also sense 2. See {Clerk}.] 1. The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. --Hooker. 2. Learning; also, a learned profession. [Obs.] Sophictry . . . rhetoric, and other cleargy. --Guy of Warwick. Put their second sons to learn some clergy. --State Papers (1515). 3. The privilege or benefit of clergy. If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled equally to his clergy after as before conviction. --Blackstone. {Benefit of clergy} (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge -- a privilege which was extended to all who could read, such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827). {Regular clergy}, {Secular clergy} See {Regular}, n., and {Secular}, a. | |
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Secular \Sec"u*lar\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[82]culier.] 1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century. The secular year was kept but once a century. --Addison. 2. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe. 3. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. --Milton. 4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest. He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy. --Prescett. 5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical. I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer. {Secular equation} (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for. {Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like. {Secular music}, any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses. {Secular hymn} [or] {poem}, a hymn or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games. | |
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Secular \Sec"u*lar\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[82]culier.] 1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century. The secular year was kept but once a century. --Addison. 2. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe. 3. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. --Milton. 4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest. He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy. --Prescett. 5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical. I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer. {Secular equation} (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for. {Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like. {Secular music}, any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses. {Secular hymn} [or] {poem}, a hymn or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games. | |
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Secular \Sec"u*lar\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[82]culier.] 1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century. The secular year was kept but once a century. --Addison. 2. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe. 3. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. --Milton. 4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest. He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy. --Prescett. 5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical. I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer. {Secular equation} (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for. {Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like. {Secular music}, any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses. {Secular hymn} [or] {poem}, a hymn or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games. | |
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Secular \Sec"u*lar\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[82]culier.] 1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century. The secular year was kept but once a century. --Addison. 2. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe. 3. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. --Milton. 4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest. He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy. --Prescett. 5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical. I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer. {Secular equation} (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for. {Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like. {Secular music}, any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses. {Secular hymn} [or] {poem}, a hymn or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games. | |
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Secularism \Sec"u*lar*ism\, n. 1. The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity. 2. The tenets or principles of the secularists. | |
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Secularist \Sec"u*lar*ist\, n. One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element. | |
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Secularity \Sec`u*lar"i*ty\, n. [Cf.F. s[82]cularit[82], LL. saecularitas.] Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness. A secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible. --I. Taylor. | |
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Secularization \Sec`u*lar*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. s[82]cularisation.] The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property. | |
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Secularize \Sec"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Secularized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Secularizing}.] [Cf. F. s[82]culaiser.] 1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. 2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. --W. Coxe. 3. To make worldly or unspiritual. --Bp. Horsley. | |
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Secularize \Sec"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Secularized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Secularizing}.] [Cf. F. s[82]culaiser.] 1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. 2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. --W. Coxe. 3. To make worldly or unspiritual. --Bp. Horsley. | |
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Secularize \Sec"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Secularized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Secularizing}.] [Cf. F. s[82]culaiser.] 1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. 2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. --W. Coxe. 3. To make worldly or unspiritual. --Bp. Horsley. | |
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Secularly \Sec"u*lar*ly\, adv. In a secular or worldly manner. | |
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Secularness \Sec"u*lar*ness\, n. The quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly-minded-ness. | |
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Moor \Moor\, n. [OE. mor, AS. m[d3]r moor, morass; akin to D. moer moor, G. moor, and prob. to Goth. marei sea, E. mere. See {Mere} a lake.] 1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. --Carew. 2. A game preserve consisting of moorland. {Moor buzzard} (Zo[94]l.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] {Moor coal} (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite. {Moor cock} (Zo[94]l.), the male of the moor fowl or red grouse of Europe. {Moor coot}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gallinule}. {Moor fowl}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European ptarmigan, or red grouse ({Lagopus Scoticus}). (b) The European heath grouse. See under {Heath}. {Moor game}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Moor fowl} (above). {Moor grass} (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass ({Sesleria c[91]rulea}), found in mountain pastures of Europe. {Moor hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the marsh harrier. {Moor hen}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The female of the moor fowl. (b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See {Gallinule}. (c) An Australian rail ({Tribonyx ventralis}). {Moor monkey} (Zo[94]l.), the black macaque of Borneo ({Macacus maurus}). {Moor titling} (Zo[94]l.), the European stonechat ({Pratinocola rubicola}). | |
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Reproduction \Re`pro*duc"tion\ (-d?k"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. reproduction.] 1. The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically (Biol.), the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. Note: There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.: {asexual reproduction} (agamogenesis) and {sexual reproduction} (gamogenesis). In both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of the parent organism. In asexual reproduction (gemmation, fission, etc.), the detached portions of the organism develop into new individuals without the intervention of other living matter. In sexual reproduction, the detached portion, which is always a single cell, called the female germ cell, is acted upon by another portion of living matter, the male germ cell, usually from another organism, and in the fusion of the two (impregnation) a new cell is formed, from the development of which arises a new individual. 2. That which is reproduced. | |
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Sickler \Sic"kler\, n. One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper. | |
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Sicklewort \Sic"kle*wort`\, n. [AS. sicolwyrt.] (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus {Coronilla} ({C. scorpioides}); -- so named from its curved pods. (b) The healall ({Brunella vulgaris}). | |
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Sickly \Sick"ly\, a. [Compar. {Sicklier}; superl. {Sickliest}.] 1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. --Shak. 2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. --Cowper. 3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. --Dryden. Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. --Keble. 4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality. Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint. | |
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Sigillarid \Sig`il*la"rid\, n. (Paleon.) One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus {Sigillaria} and its allies. | |
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Suckler \Suc"kler\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An animal that suckles its young; a mammal. | |
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Sicklerville, NJ Zip code(s): 08081 |