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n. See Affiliation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Affiliated p. pr. & vb. n. Affiliating ] [ LL. adfiliare, affiliare, to adopt as son; ad + filius son: cf. F. affilier. ] 1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion? I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. [ 1913 Webster ]

How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes? H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 being joined in close association affiliated clubs
Syn. -- attached, connected [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. affiliation, LL. affiliatio. ] 1. Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Connection in the way of descent. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. exaggerated admiration for England and English customs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Melancholy; atrabilious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. [ 1913 Webster ]

Atrabiliary arteries,
capsules, and
veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An auxiliary. [ Archaic ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. auxiliaris: cf. F. auxiliaire. See Auxiliary. ] Auxiliary. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of help. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. auxiliarius, fr. auxilium help, aid, fr. augere to increase. ] Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. [ 1913 Webster ]

Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. --
Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Auxiliaries 1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; être and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulæ. Math. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Auxiliary; helping. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bilis bile: cf. F. biliaire. ] (Physiol.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) The production and excretion of bile. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Brazil, built on the central plateau. Population (2000) = 1, 800, 000.
Syn. -- Brazilian capital. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Brazil. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Brazil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brazilian pebble. See Pebble, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. caecus blind. So named from the supposed blindness of the species, the eyes being very minute. ] (Zool.) A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Cæciliæ or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha. [ Written also cœcilian. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. castellano, from Castila, NL. Castilia, Castella. Castile, which received its name from the castles erected on the frontiers as a barrier against the Moors. ] 1. An inhabitant or native of Castile, in Spain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The Spanish language as spoken in Castile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chilia`s, chiliado`s, fr. chi`lioi a thousand. ] A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years. [ 1913 Webster ]

The world, then in the seventh chiliad, will be assumed up unto God. Sir. T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; chi`lioi a thousand + &unr_; angle. ] A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chi`lioi a thousand + &unr_; base, fr. &unr_; to sit. ] A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces [ Spelt also chiliaëdron. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Chili. -- n. A native or citizen of Chili. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; chi`lioi a thousand + &unr_; leader, &unr_; to lead. ] The commander or chief of a thousand men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] A body consisting of a thousand men. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;. See Chiliad. ] 1. The millennium. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Chiliasm. ] One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a millenarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Millenarian. “The obstruction offered by the chiliastic errors.” J. A. Alexander. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. Cilium, the sing., is rarely used. [ L. cilium eyelid. ] 1. (Anat.) The eyelashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to a cilium or cilia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. ciliaire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Cilia. ] (Zool.) One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Civil ] 1. One skilled in the civil law. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ancient civilians and writers upon government. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A student of the civil law at a university or college. R. Graves. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Cæcilian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conciliabulum, fr. concitium assembly: cf. F. conciliabule. See Council. ] A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. conciliable. ] Capable of being conciliated or reconciled. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Conciliable, n. ] An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. [ Cf. F. conciliare. ] Of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Conciliated; p. pr & vb. n. Conciliating. ] [ L. conciliatus, p. p. of conciliare to draw or bring together, unite, from concilium council. See Council. ] To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the nation. Hallam.

Syn. -- To reconcile; propitiate; appease; pacify. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conciliatio. ] The act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated. [ 1913 Webster ]

The house has gone further; it has declared conciliation admissible previous to any submission on the part of America. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Conciliatory. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who conciliates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. [ 1913 Webster ]

The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. crocodilus crocodile. ] (Zool.) An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile. -- n. One of the Crocodilia. [ 1913 Webster ]