CEASELESS, adjective

1. Without a stop or pause; incessant; continual; without intermission.

All these with ceaseless praise his works behold.

2. Endless; enduring for ever; as the ceaseless joys of heaven.

CEASELESSLY, adverb Incessantly; perpetually.

CEASING, participle present tense Stopping; ending; desisting; failing.

CECCHN, noun A coin of Italy and Barbary. [See Zechin.]

CECITY, noun Blindness.

CEDAR, noun A tree. This name is given to different species of the juniper, and to a species of Pinus. The latter is that which is mentioned in scripture. It is an evergreen, grows to a great size, and is remarkable for its durability.

CEDARN, adjective Pertaining to the cedar.

CEDE, verb transitive

1. To yield; to surrender; to give up; to resign; as to cede a fortress, a province or country, by treaty. This word is appropriately used to denote the relinquishment of a conquered city, fortress, or territory, to the former sovereign or proprietor.

2. To relinquish and grant; as, to cede all claims to a disputed right or territory.

The people must cede to the government some of their natural rights.

CEDED, participle passive Yielded; surrendered; given up.

CEDING, participle present tense Yielding; giving up.

CEDRAT, noun A species of citron-tree.

CEDRINE, adjective Belonging to cedar.

CEDRY, adjective Having the color or properties of cedar.

CEDUOUS, adjective Fit to be felled.

CEIL, verb transitive To overlay or cover the inner roof of a building; or to cover the top or roof of a room.

And the greater house he ceiled with fir-tree. 2 Chronicles 3:1.

CEILED, participle passive Overlaid with timber, or with plastering.

CEILING, participle present tense Covering the top of a room or building.

CEILING, noun

1. The covering which overlays the inner roof of a building, or the timbers which form the top of a room. This covering may be of boards, or of lath and plastering. Hence ceiling is used for the upper part of a room.

2. In ship building, the inside planks of a ship.

CELANDINE, noun A plant, swallow-wort, horned or prickly poppy, growing on old walls, among rubbish, and in waste places. The lesser celandine is called pile-wort, a species of Ranunculus. The name is also given to the Bocconia, a plant of the West Indies, called the greater tree-celandine. The true orthography would be Chelidine.

CELATURE, noun

1. The act or art of engraving or embossing.

2. That which is engraved.

CELEBRATE, verb transitive

1. To praise; to extol; to commend; to give to; to make famous; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.

The grave cannot celebrate thee. Isaiah 38:18.

2. To distinguish by solemn rites; to keep holy.

From even to even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath. Leviticus 23:32.

3. To honor or distinguish by ceremonies and marks of joy and respect; as, to celebrate the birth day of Washington; to celebrate a marriage.

4. To mention in a solemn manner, whether of joy or sorrow.

CELEBRATED, participle passive Praised; extolled; honored.

CELEBRATING, participle present tense Praising; honoring.

CELEBRATION, noun

1. Solemn performance; a distinguishing by solemn rites; as the celebration of a marriage, or of a religious festival.

2. A distinguishing by ceremonies, or by marks of joy or respect; as the celebration of a birth day, or other anniversary.

3. Praise; renown; honor or distinction bestowed, whether by songs, eulogies, or rites and ceremonies.

CELEBRATOR, noun One who celebrates.

CELEBRIOUS, adjective Famous; renowned.

CELEBRIOUSLY, adverb With praise or renown.

CELEBRIOUSNESS, noun Fame; renown.

CELEBRITY, noun

1. Fame; renown; the distinction or honor publicly bestowed on a nation or person, on character or exploits; the distinction bestowed on whatever is great or remarkable, and manifested by praises or eulogies; as the celebrity of the duke of Wellington; the celebrity of Homer, or of the Iliad.

England acquired celebrity from the triumphs of Marlborough.

2. Public and splendid transaction; as the celebrity of a marriage. In this sense, as used by Bacon, we now use celebration.

CELERI. [See Celery.]

CELERITY, noun

1. Rapidity in motion; swiftness; speed; applied most generally to bodies moving on or near the earth; as the celerity of horse or of a fowl. We speak of the velocity of sound or of light, or of a planet in its orbit. This distinction however is not general, nor can the different uses of the two words be precisely defined. We apply celerity rather than velocity to thought; but there seems to be no reason, except usage, why the two words should not be synonymous.

2. An affection of motion by which a movable body runs through a given space in a given time.

CELERY, noun A plant, a species of Apium cultivated for the table.

CELESTIAL, adjective

1. Heavenly; belonging or relating to heaven; dwelling in heaven; as celestial spirits; celestial joys. Hence the word conveys the idea of superior excellence, delight, purity, etc.

2. Belonging to the upper regions, or visible heaven; as celestial signs; the celestial globe.

3. Descending from heaven; as a suit of celestial armor.

CELESTIAL, noun An inhabitant of heaven.

CELESTIALLY, adverb In a heavenly or transporting manner.

CELESTIFY, verb transitive To communicate something of a heavenly nature to any thing.

CELESTIN,

CELESTINE, noun In mineralogy, native sulphate of strontian, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color.

CELESTINE, n. In mineralogy, native sulphate of strontian, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color.

CELESTINS, noun A religious order, so named from Pope Celestin. They have ninety-six convents in Italy, and twenty-one in France. They rise two hours after midnight to say matins. They eat no flesh, except when sick, and fast often. Their habit is a white gown, a capuche and a black scapulary.

CELIAC, adjective Pertaining to the lower belly, or intestines.

CELIBACY, noun An unmarried state; a single life. It is most frequently if not always applied to males, or to a voluntary single life.

They look on celibacy as an accursed state.

CELIBATE, noun A single life; celibacy; chiefly used when speaking of the single life of the Popish clergy.

CELL, noun

1. A small or close apartment, as in a prison, or a bath.

2. A cottage; a cave; a small or mean place of residence.

3. A small cavity or hollow place, variously applied; as the cells of the brain; the cells of a honey comb, etc.

4. In botany, a hollow place in a pericarp, particularly in a capsule, in which seeds are lodged. According to the number of these cells, pericarps are called unilocular, bilocular, trilocular, etc.

5. In anatomy, a little bag, or bladder, containing fluid or other matter; as the adipose cells, containing fat.

6. A religious house.

CELLAR, noun A room under a house or other building, used as a repository of liquors, provisions, and other stores for a family.

CELLARAGE, noun A case of cabinet work, for holding bottles of liquors.

CELLARIST, CELLARER noun An officer in a monastery who has the care of the cellar, or the charge of procuring and keeping the provisions; also, an officer in chapters, who has the care of the temporals, and particularly of distributing bread, wine, and money to canons, an account of their attendance in the choir.

CELLARIST, CELLARER, noun An officer in a monastery who has the care of the cellar, or the charge of procuring and keeping the provisions; also, an officer in chapters, who has the care of the temporals, and particularly of distributing bread, wine, and money to canons, an account of their attendance in the choir.

CELLIFEROUS, adjective Bearing or producing cells.

CELLULAR, adjective Consisting of cells, or containing cells.

The cellular membrane, in animal bodies, is composed of an infinite number of minute cells, communicating with each other. It invests every fiber, and seems to be the medium of connection between all parts of the body. The cells serve as reservoirs for fat.

CELLULIFEROUS, adjective Bearing or producing little cells.

CELSITUDE, noun Highth; elevation.

CELT, noun One of the primitive inhabitants of the South of Europe. [see Celtic.]

CELTIBERIAN, adjective Pertaining to Celtiberia, and its inhabitants, the Celtiberi, or Celts of the Iberus, a river in Spain.

CELTIBERIAN, noun An inhabitant of Celtiberia.

CELTIC, adjective Pertaining to the primitive inhabitants of the South and West of Europe, or to the early inhabitants of Italy, Gaul, Spain and Britain. We say, celtic nations; celtic customs; celtic origin.

CELTIC, noun The language of the Celts.

CELTICISM, noun The manners and customs of the Celts.

CELTIS, noun The nettle-tree, of several species; among which are the australis or southern, a native of Africa and the South of Europe; the oriental, growing an Armenia and Taurica; and the western, growing in Virginia.

CEMENT, noun

1. Any glutinous or other substance capable of uniting bodies in close cohesion, as mortar, glue, soder, etc. In building, cement denotes a stronger kind of mortar than that which is ordinarily used.

2. Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.

3. Powders or pastes, surrounding bodies in pots and crucibles, for chimical purposes.

CEMENT, verb transitive To unite by the application of glutinous substances, by mortar which hardens, or other matter that produces cohesion of bodies.

2. To unite firmly or closely; as, to cement all parts of the community; to cement friendship.

CEMENT, verb transitive To unite or become solid; to unite and cohere.

CEMENTATION, noun

1. The act of cementing; the act of uniting by a suitable substance.

2. In chimistry, the act of applying cements to substances, or the corroding and changing of them by cement. This is done by surrounding them with the powder of another body, and exposing them, in a close vessel, to a heat not sufficient to fuse them.

CEMENTATORY, adjective Cementing; having the quality of uniting firmly.

CEMENTED, participle passive United by cement; changed by cement; firmly united; consolidated.

CEMENTER, noun The person or thing that cements.

CEMENTING, participle present tense Uniting by cement; changing by means of a cement; uniting closely; consolidating.

CEMENTITIOUS, adjective Having the quality of cementing.

CEMETERY, noun A place where the dead bodies of human beings are buried.

CENATORY, adjective Pertaining or relating to supper.

REJUVENES'CENCE, 'CENCY, noun [Latin re and juvenescens; juvenis, a youth.]

CENOBITE, noun One of a religious order, who live in a convent, or in community; in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

CENOBITIC,

CENOBITICAL, adjective Living in community, as men belonging to a convent.

CENOBITICAL, a. Living in community, as men belonging to a convent.

CENOBY, noun A place where person live in community.

CENOTAPH, noun An empty tomb erected in honor of some deceased person; a monument erected to one who is buried elsewhere.

CENSE, noun

1. A public rate or tax.

2. Condition; rank.

CENSE, verb transitive To perfume with odors from burning substances.

CENSER, noun A vase or pan in which incense is burned. Among the Jews, a kind of chafing-dish, covered by a dome, and suspended by a chain, used to offer perfumes in sacrifices.

CENSING, participle present tense Perfuming with odors.

CENSION, noun A rate, tax, or assessment.

CENSOR, noun

1. An officer, in ancient Rome, whose business was to register the effects of the citizens, to impose taxes according to the property which each man possessed, and to inspect the manners of the citizens, with power to censure vice and immorality, by inflicting a public mark of ignominy on the offender.

2. One who is empowered to examine all manuscripts and books, before they are committed to the press, and to see that they contain nothing heretical or immoral.

3. One who is given to censure.

CENSORIAL,

CENSORIAN, adjective

1. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals; as, censorial power.

2. Full of censure; See censorious, the proper word.

CENSORIOUS, adjective

1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners; often implying ill-nature, illiberality, or uncharitableness; as a censorious critic.

2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.

CENSORIOUSLY, adverb In a censorious manner.

CENSORIOUSNESS, noun

1. Disposition to blame and condemn; the habit o censuring or reproaching.

2. The quality of being censorious.

CENSORSHIP, noun The office or dignity of a censor; the time during which a censor holds his office.

CENSUAL, adjective Relating to, or containing a census; liable to be rated.

CENSURABLE, adjective [See Censure.] Worthy of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensibly; faulty; as a censurable person, or censurable conduct or writings.

CENSURABLENESS, noun Blamableness; fitness to be censured.

CENSURABLEY, adverb In a manner worthy of blame.

CENSURE, noun

1. The act of blaming or finding fault and condemning as wrong; applicable to the moral conduct, or to the works of men. When applied to persons, it is nearly equivalent to blame, reproof, reprehension, reprimand. It is an expression of disapprobation, which often implies reproof.

2. Judicial sentence; judgment that condemns. An ecclesiastical censure is a sentence of condemnation, or penalty inflicted on a member of a church for mal-conduct, by which he is deprived of the communion of the church, or prohibited from executing the sacerdotal office.

CENSURE, verb transitive

1. To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of; as, to censure a man, or his manners, or his writings.

We laugh at vanity, oftener than we censure pride.

2. To condemn by a judicial sentence, as in ecclesiastical affairs.

3. To estimate.

CENSURE, verb intransitive To judge.

CENSURED, participle passive Blaming; finding fault with; condemning.

CENSUS, noun

1. In ancient Rome, an authentic declaration made before the censors, by the citizens, of their names and places of abode. This declaration was registered, and contained an enumeration of all their lands and estates, their quantity and quality, with the wives, children, domestics, tenants, and slaves of each citizen. Hence the word signifies this enumeration or register, a mans whole substance, and the tax imposed according to each mans property.

2. In the United States of America, an-enumeration of the inhabitants of all the States, taken by order of the Congress, to furnish the rule of apportioning the representation among the States, and the number of representatives to which each State is entitled in the Congress; also, an enumeration of the inhabitants of a State, taken by order of its legislature.

CENT, noun

1. A hundred. In commerce, per cent denotes a certain rate by the hundred; as, ten per cent Is ten in the hundred, whether profit or loss. This rate is called percentage.

2. In the United States of America, a copper coin whose value is the hundredth part of a dollar.

CENTAGE, noun Rate by the cent or hundred.

CENTAUR, noun

1. In mythology, a fabulous being, supposed to be half man and half horse. It has been supposed that this fancied monster originated among the Lapithae, a tribe in Thessaly, who first invented the art of breaking horses. But the origin of the fable and of the name is doubtful.

2. Part of a southern constellation, in form of a centaur usually joined with the wolf, containing thirty-five stars; the archer.

CENTAURLIKE, adjective Having the appearance of a centaur.

CENTAURY, noun The name of a plant, and a genus of plants, of numerous species. The lesser centaury is a species of Gentiana. centaury bears the popular names of knapweed, bluebottle, sultan, and star-thistle.

CENTENARY, noun The number of a hundred; as a centenary of years.

CENTENARY, adjective Relating to a hundred; consisting of a hundred.

CENTENNIAL, adjective

1. Consisting of a hundred yeas, or completing that term.

2. Pertaining to a hundred years.

3. Happening every hundred years.

CENTER, noun

1. A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure or body; the middle point or place.

2. The middle or central object. In an army, the body of troops occupying the place in the line between the wings. In a fleet, the division between the van and rear of the line of battle, and between the weather division and lee, in the order of sailing.

3. A single body or house.

These institutions collected all authority into one center kings, nobles and people.

CENTER of gravity, in mechanics, the point about which all the parts of a body exactly balance each other.

CENTER o motion, the point which remains at rest, while all the other parts of a body move round it.

CENTER, verb transitive

1. To place on a center; to fix on a central point.

2. To collect to a point.

Thy joys are centered all in me alone.

CENTER, verb intransitive

1. To be collected to a point.

Our hopes must center on ourselves alone.

2. To be collected to a point; to rest on.

3. To be placed in the middle.

CENTERED, participle passive Collected to a point or center; fixed on a central point.

CENTERING, participle present tense Placing on the center; collecting to a point.

CENTESIMAL, adjective The hundredth. As a noun, the next step of progression after decimal in the arithmetic of fractions.

CENTESIMATION, noun A military punishment, for desertion, mutiny or the like, where one person in a hundred is selected for execution.

CENTESM, noun The hundredth part of an integer or thing.

CENTIFOLIOUS, adjective Having a hundred leaves.

CENTIGRADE, adjective Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts; as a centigrade thermometer.

CENTIGRAM, noun In French Measure, the hundredth part of a gram. [see Gram.]

CENTILITER, noun The hundredth part of a liter, a little more than 6-10 of a cubic inch.

CENTIMETER, noun In French measure, the hundredth part of a meter, rather more than 39-100 of an inch. English measure.

CENTINODY, noun Knotgrass.

CENTIPED, noun An insect having a hundred feet, but the term is applied to insects that have many feet, though not a hundred. Insects of this kind are called generically Scolopendra. In warm climates, some of them grow to the length of six inches or more, and their bite is poisonous.

CENTIPEE, for centiped.

CENTNER, noun In metallurgy and assaying, a docimastic hundred; a weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts. The metallurgists use a weight divided into a hundred equal parts, each one pound; the whole they call a centner; the pound is divided into thirty-two parts or half ounces; the half ounce into two quarters, and each of these into two drams. But the assayers use different weights. With them a centner is one dram, to which the other parts are proportioned.

CENTO, noun A composition formed by verses or passages from other authors, disposed in a new order.

CENTRAL, adjective Relating to the center; placed in the center or middle; containing the center, or pertaining to the parts near the center.

CENTRAL forces, in mechanics, the powers which cause a moving body to tend towards or recede from the center of motion.

CENTRALITY, noun The state of being central.

CENTRALLY, adverb With regard to the center; in a central manner.

CENTRIC, adjective Placed in the center or middle.

CENTRICALLY, adverb In a central position.

CENTRICALNESS, noun Situation in the center.

CENTRIFUGAL, adjective Tending to recede from the center. The centrifugal force of a body, is that force by which all bodies moving round another body in a curve, tend to fly off from the axis of their motion, in a tangent to the periphery of the curve.

CENTRIPETAL, adjective Tending towards the center. centripetal force is that force which draws or impels a body towards some point as a center; as in case of a planet revolving round the sun, the center of the system. [Note: The common accentuation of centrifugal and centripetal is artificial and harsh. The accent on the first and third syllables, as in circumpolar, would be natural and easy.]

CENTUMVIR, noun One of a hundred and five judges, in ancient Rome, appointed to decide common causes among the people.

CENTUMVIRAL, adjective Pertaining to the centumvirs.

CENTUPLE, adjective A hundred fold.

CENTUPLE, verb transitive To multiply a hundred fold.

CENTUPLICATE, verb transitive To make a hundred fold.

CENTURIAL, adjective Relating to a century, or a hundred years; as a chanterelle sermon.

When the third chanterelle jubilee of New-England shall come, who of us will then be living to participate he general joy?

CENTURIATE, verb transitive To divide into hundreds.

CENTURIATORS,

CENTURION, noun Among the Romans, a military officer who commanded a hundred men, a century or company of infantry, answering to the captain in modern armies.

CENTURION, n. Among the Romans, a military officer who commanded a hundred men, a century or company of infantry, answering to the captain in modern armies.

CENTURIST, noun A historian who distinguishes time into centuries; as in the Universal Church History of Magdeburg.

CENTURY, noun

1. In a general sense, a hundred; any thing consisting of a hundred parts.

2. A division of the Roman people for the purpose of electing magistrates and enacting laws, the people voting by centuries; also, a company consisting of a hundred men.

3. A period of a hundred years. This is the most common signification of the word; and as we begin our modern computation of time from the incarnation of Christ, the word is generally applied to some term of a hundred years subsequent to that event; as the fist or second century or the tenth century If we intend to apply the word to a different era, we use an explanatory adjunct; as the third century before the Christian era, or after the reign of Cyrus.

4. The Centuries of Magdeburg, a title given to an ecclesiastical history, arranged in 13 centuries, compiled by a great number of Protestants at Magdeburg.

CEOL, Sax. A ship. This word is sometimes found prefixed to names.

CEPHALALGIC, noun A medicine good for the headache.

CEPHALALGY, noun The headache.

CEPHALIC, adjective Pertaining to the head; as cephalic medicines, remedies for disorders in the head. The cephalic vein, which runs along the arm, was so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head.

CEPHALIC, noun A medicine for headache or other disorder in the head.

CEPHEUS, noun A constellation in the Northern hemisphere.

CEPHUS, noun A fowl of the duck kind; also, a species of monkey, the mona.

CERASEE, noun The male balsam apple.

CERASIN, noun Any gummy substance which swells in cold water, but does not readily dissolve in it.

CERASITE, noun A petrifaction resembling a cherry.

CERASTES, noun In zoology, the name of a serpent, of the genus Coluber, which the ancients supposed to have horns.

CERATE, noun A thick kind of ointment, composed of wax and oil, with other ingredients; applied externally in various diseases.

CERATED, adjective Covered with wax.

CERE, noun The naked skin that covers the base of a hawks bill.

CERE, verb transitive To wax or cover with wax.

CEREBEL,

CEREBELLUM, noun The hinder part of the head, or the little brain.

CEREBRAL,

CEREBRINE, adjective Pertaining to the cerebrum or brain.

CERECLOTH, noun A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. [But the English word for a cloth used to cover wounds is sear-cloth.]

CEREMENT, noun Cloths dipped in melted wax, with which dead bodies were infolded, when embalmed.

CEREMONIAL, adjective [See Ceremony.]

1. Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites; as ceremonial exactness. It is particularly applied to the forms and rites of the Jewish religion; as the ceremonial law or worship, as distinguished from the moral and judicial law.

2. Formal; observant of old forms; exact; precise in manners.

[In this sense, ceremonious is now used.]

CEREMONIAL, noun

1. Outward form; external rite, or established forms or rites, including all the forms prescribed; a system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law or established by custom, whether in religious worship, in social intercourse, or in the courts of princes.

2. The order for rites and forms in the Romish church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions.

CEREMONIALLY, adverb According to rites and ceremonies; as a person ceremonially unclean; an act ceremonially unlawful.

CEREMONIOUS, adjective

1. Consisting of outward forms and rites; as the ceremonious part of worship. [In this sense, ceremonial is now used.]

2. Full of ceremony or solemn forms.

3. According to the rules and forms prescribed or customary; civil; formally respectful. ceremonious phrases.

4. Formal; according to the rules of civility; as, to take a ceremonious leave.

5. Formal; exact; precise; too observant of forms.

CEREMONIOUSLY, adverb In a ceremonious manner; formally; with due forms.

CEREMONIOUSNESS, noun The use of customary forms; the practice of too much ceremony; great formality in manners.

CEREMONY, noun

1. Outward rite; external form in religion.

2. Forms of civility; rules established by custom for regulating social intercourse.

3. Outward forms of state; the forms prescribed or established by order or custom, serving for the purpose of civility or magnificence, as in levees of princes, the reception of ambassadors, etc.

Master of ceremonies, an officer who superintends the reception of ambassadors. A person who regulates the forms to be observed by the company or attendants on a public occasion.

CEREOLITE, noun A substance which in appearance and softness resembles wax; sometimes confounded with steatite.

CEREOUS, adjective Waxen; like wax.

CERES, noun

1. In mythology, the inventor or goddess of corn, or rather the name of corn deified.

2. The name of a planet discovered by M. Piozzi, at Palermo in Sicily, in 1801.

CERIN, noun

1. A peculiar substance which precipitates on evaporation, from alcohol, which has been digested on grated cork.

2. The part of common wax which dissolves in alcohol.

3. A variety of the mineral allanite.

CERINTHIANS, noun A set of heretics, so called from Cerinthus, one of the first heresiarchs in the church. They denied the divinity of Christ, but they held that, in his baptism, a celestial virtue descended on him in the form of a dove, by means of which he was consecrated by the Holy Spirit and made Christ.

CERITE, noun [See Cerium.]

1. The siliceous oxyd of Cerium, a rare mineral of a pale rose red color, with a tinge of yellow.

2. A fossil shell.

CERIUM, noun A metal recently discovered in Sweden, in the mineral cerate, and so called rom the planet Ceres. It is of great specific gravity. Its color a grayish white and its texture lamellar.

CEROON, noun [from the Spanish.] A bale or package made of skins.

CERRIAL, adjective Pertaining to the Cerrus, or bitter oak.

CERRUS, noun The bitter oak.

CERTAIN, adjective

1. Sure; true; undoubted; unquestionable; that cannot be denied; existing in fact and truth.

The dream is certain and the interpretation sure. Daniel 2:45.

2. Assured in mind; having no doubts; followed by of, before a noun.

However I with thee have fixed my lot,

CERTAIN to undergo like doom of death,

Consort with thee.

To make her certain of the sad event.

3. Unfailing; always producing the intended effect; as, we may have a certain remedy for a disease.

4. Not doubtful or casual; really existing.

Virtue that directs our ways

Through certain dangers to uncertain praise.

5. Stated; fixed; determinate; regular.

Ye shall gather a certain rate every day. Exodus 16:4.

6. Particular.

There came a certain poor widow. Mark 12:1.

In the plural number, a particular part or number; some; an indefinite part, number, or quantity. Hanani came, he and certain men of Judah. I mourned certain days. Nehemiah 1:2. 6.

In the latter sense, it is used as a noun; as, certain also of your own poets have said. Acts 17:5.

CERTAINLY, adverb

1. Without doubt or question; in truth and fact.

CERTAINLY this was a righteous man. Luke 23:47.

2. Without failure.

He said, I will certainly return to thee. Genesis 18:10.

CERTAINNESS, noun Certainty, which see.

CERTAINTY, noun

1. A fixed or real state; truth; fact.

Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out these nations. Joshua 23:13. Luke 1:4.

2. Full assurance of mind; exemption from doubt.

CERTAINTY is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of our ideas.

3. Exemption from failure; as the certainty of an event, or of the success of a medicine.

The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes.

4. Regularity; settled state.

CERTES, adverb Certainly; in truth; verily.

CERTIFICATE, noun [See Certify.]

1. In a general sense, a written testimony not sworn to; a declaration in writing, signed by the party, and intended to verify a fact.

2. In a more particular sense, the written declaration, under the hand or seal or both, of some public officer, to be used as evidence in a court, or to substantiate a fact. A certificate of this kind may be considered as given under the oath of office.

3. Trial by certificate is where the evidence of the person certifying is the only proper criterion of the point in dispute as when the issue is whether a person was absent in the army, this is tried by the certificate of the Mareschall of the army, in writing under his seal.

CERTIFICATE, verb transitive or i.t.

1. To give a certificate; to lodge a certificate with the proper officer, for the purpose of being exempted from the payment of taxes to support the ministry, in a parish or ecclesiastical society.

2. To give a certificate to, acknowledging one to be a parishioner.

But such certificated person can gain no settlement.

CERTIFICATION, noun The act of certifying.

CERTIFIED, participle passive [See Certify.] Assured; made certain; informed.

CERTIFIER, noun One who certifies, or assures.

CERTIFY, verb transitive

1. To testify to in writing; to make a declaration in writing, under hand, or hand and seal, to make known or establish a fac.

The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate, the decree is usually founded.

The Judge shall certify under his hand, that the freehold came chiefly in question.

2. To give certain information to; applied to persons.

We have sent and certified the king. Ezra 4:14.

3. To give certain information of; applied to things.

This is designed to certify those things that are confirmed of Gods favor.

It is followed by of, after the person, and before the thing told; as, I certified you of the fact.

CERTIFYING, participle present tense Giving a written testimony, or certificate; giving certain notice; making certainly known.

CERTIORARI, noun A writ issuing out of Chancery, Kings Bench or other superior court, to call up the records of an inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, that it may be tried in the superior court. This writ is obtained upon complaint of a party, that he has not received justice, or that he cannot have an impartial trial, in the inferior court.

CERTITUDE, noun Certainty; assurance; freedom from doubt.

CERULEAN,

CERULEOUS, adjective Sky-colored; blue.

CERULIFIC, adjective Producing a blue or sky-color.

CERUMEN, noun The wax or yellow matter secreted by the ear.

CERUSE, noun White-lead; a carbonate of lead, produced by exposing the metal in thin plates to the vapor of vinegar. Lead is sometimes found native in the form of ceruse

CERUSE of antimony is a white oxyd of antimony, which separates from the water in which diaphoretic antimony has been washed.

CERUSED, adjective Washed with a preparation of white lead.

CERVICAL, adjective Belonging to the neck; as the cervical nerves; cervical vessels.

CERVIN,

CERVINE, adjective Pertaining to the deer, or to animals of the genus Cervus.

CERVINE, a. Pertaining to the deer, or to animals of the genus Cervus.

CESAREAN, adjective The cesarean operation is the taking of a child from the womb by cutting; an operation, which, it is said, gave name to Caesar, the Roman emperor.

CESPITITIOUS, adjective Pertaining to turf; made of turf.

CESPITOUS, adjective Pertaining to turf; turfy.

A cespitous or turfy plant, has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close thick carpet or matting.

CESS, as a noun, a rate or tax, and as a verb, to rate or lay a tax, is probably a corruption of assess, or from the same root.

CESS, verb intransitive To neglect a legal duty.

CESSATION, noun

1. A ceasing; a stop; a rest; the act of discontinuing motion or action of any kind, whether temporary or final.

2. A ceasing or suspension of operation, force or effect; as a cessation of the laws of nature.

A cessation of arms, an armistice or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes.

CESSAVIT, noun In law, a writ given by statute, to recover lands, when the tenant or occupier has ceased for two years to perform the service, which constitutes the condition of his tenure, and has not sufficient goods or chattels to be distrained, or the tenant has so inclosed the land that the lord cannot come upon it to distrain.

CESSER, noun [See Cess.] A ceasing; a neglect to perform services or payment for two years. See Cessavit.]

CESSIBILITY, noun [See Cede and Cession.] The act of giving way or receding.

CESSIBLE, adjective [See Cede.] Giving way; yielding; easy to give way.

CESSION, noun

1. The act of giving way; a yielding to force or impulse.

2. A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; particularly, a surrender of conquered territory to its former proprietor or sovereign, by treaty.

3. In the civil law, a voluntary surrender of a persons effects to his creditors, to avoid imprisonment.

4. In ecclesiastical law, the leaving of a benefice without dispensation or being otherwise qualified. When an ecclesiastical person is created a bishop, or when the parson of a parish takes another benefice, without dispensation, the benefices are void by cession without resignation.

CESSIONARY, adjective Having surrendered effects; as a cessionary bankrupt.

CESSMENT, noun An assessment or tax.

CESSOR, noun

1. In law, he that neglects, for two years, to perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. [See Cessavit.]

2. An assessor, or taxer.

CEST, noun A ladys girdle.

CESTUS, noun The girdle of Venus, or marriage-girdle, among the Greeks and Romans.

CESURA,

CESURAL, adjective Pertaining to the cesure.

CESURE, noun A pause in verse, so introduced as to aid the recital, and render the versification more melodious. It divides a verse or line into equal or unequal parts. Its most pleasing effect is produced, when it is placed at the end of the second foot, or in the middle, or at the end of the third foot.

CETACEOUS, adjective Pertaining to the whale; belonging to the whale kind. The cetacceous fishes include the genera monodon, balaena, physeter and delphinus. They have no gills, but an aperture on the top of the head, and a flat or horizontal tail.

CETATE, noun A compound of cetic acid, with a base.

CETERACH, noun A trivial name of a species of Asplenium, or spleen-wort.

CETIC, adjective Pertaining to the whale. The cetic acid is a peculiar substance obtained from the spermaceti.

CETIN, noun A name given to spermaceti by Chevreul.

CETOLOGICAL, noun Pertaining to cetology.

CETOLOGIST, noun One who is versed in the natural history of the whale and its kindred animals.

CETOLOGY, noun The doctrine or natural history of cetaceous animals.

CETUS, noun In astronomy, the whale, a large constellation of the Southern hemisphere, containing ninety-seven stars.

CEYLANITE, noun A mineral, classed with the ruby family; called also pleonaste. Its color is a muddy, dark blue, and grayish black, approaching to iron black. It occurs in grains, or small crystals, either perfect octahedrons, or truncated on the edges, or with the angles acuminated by four planes. It occurs also in rhomboidal dodecahedrons.