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n. An admirer of antiquity. [ Used by Milton in a disparaging sense. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; -- of governments or rulers; as, an authoritarian regime
Syn. -- autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannical [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 expecting unquestioning obedience: "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
Syn. -- dictatorial, overbearing [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 behaves like a tyrant.
Syn. -- dictator [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid worms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. co- + sign. Cf. Signatory. ] Signing some important public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cosignitaries One who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of Berlin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Depositaries [ L. depositarius, fr. deponere. See Deposit. ] 1. One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. [ 1913 Webster ]

I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A storehouse; a depository. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of plants including the crab grass (Digitaria sanguinalis); finger grass.
Syn. -- genus Digitaria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. dignitaries [ Cf. F. dignitaire, fr. L. dignitas. ] One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Hinduism) the Hindu god of the sky; same as Dyaus.
Syn. -- Dyaus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A political dynamiter. [ A form found in some newspapers. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality.
Syn. -- egalitarianism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Being beyond the limit or bounds; as, extraliminary land. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. guitare; cf. Pr., Sp., & Pg.guitarra, It. chitarra; all fr. Gr. &unr_;; cf. L. cithara. Cf. Cittern, Gittern. ] A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray of the family Rhinobatidae with a guitar-shaped body. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a musician who plays the guitar.
Syn. -- guitar player. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. By inheritance; in an hereditary manner. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. hereditarius, fr. hereditas heirship, inheritance, fr. heres heir: cf. F. héréditaire. See Heir. ] 1. Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.

Syn. -- Ancestral; patrimonial; inheritable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. hermitorium, eremitorium. ] A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Theol. & Ch. Hist.) Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philos.) Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Benevolent; philanthropic. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Humanity. ] 1. (Theol. & Ch. Hist.) One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philos.) One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of humans and human societies; a philanthropist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Theol. & Ch. Hist.) The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philos.) The doctrine that man's obligations are limited to, and dependent alone upon, man and the human relations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not sanitary; unhealthy; unsanitary; as, insanitary conditions of drainage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. krith`s judge + 'archh` beginning, government. ] The rule of the judges over Israel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Samson, Jephthah, Gideon, and other heroes of the kritarchy. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to limit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. limitaris. See Limit , v. t. ] 1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. “Proud limitary cherub.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. “The limitary ocean.” Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Limiting, or tending to limit; restrictive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doctrines limitary, if not subversive of the papal power. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. limitaries 1. That which serves to limit; a boundary; border land. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A limiter. See Limiter, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Litharge. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Mechitar, an Armenian., who founded the congregation in the early part of the eighteenth century. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) See Mechitarist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Military. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a military manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. militarization. [ mostly Brit. ]
Syn. -- mobilization, mobilisation, militarization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. militarisme. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A military state or condition; a military system; reliance on military force in administering government. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The spirit and traditions of military life. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The view that military strength, efficiency and values should dominate the country's public policy choices and take precedence over other interests. [ 1913 Webster PJC ]

4. The policy of maintaining a large military force, even in peacetime; -- a term usually used by opponents of such a policy on the assumption that such a large force is unnecessary for national defense. [ PJC ]

n. 1. A military man. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person having a strong spirit of militarism, in senses 3 or 4. [ PJC ]

adj. imbued with militarism, in senses 3 or 4. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. act of assembling and putting into readiness the military forces for war or other emergency.
Syn. -- mobilization, mobilisation, militarisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. & i. to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.
Syn. -- make military. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. Equipped with weapons; armed; -- used of persons, regions, or the military. Contrasted to unarmed and demilitarized; as, if that's a demilitarized zone, I wonder what a militarized zone would look like. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ L. militaris, militarius, from miles, militis, soldier: cf. F. militaire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Military law. See Martial law, under Martial. --
Military order. (a) A command proceeding from a military superior. (b) An association of military persons under a bond of certain peculiar rules; especially, such an association of knights in the Middle Ages, or a body in modern times taking a similar form, membership of which confers some distinction. --
Military tenure, tenure of land, on condition of performing military service. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. militaire. ] The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; determinism. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Not inheritable through genetic transmission. Opposite of inheritable, and heritable. [ Narrower terms: acquired, nurtural; congenital, inborn, innate ]
Syn. -- nontransmissible, nonheritable, noninheritable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]