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n. 1. Aldermen collectively; the body of aldermen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being an alderman. [ Jocular ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Amanitine. ] (Bot.) A genus of poisonous fungi of the family Agaricaceæ, characterized by having a volva, an annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and Agaricus phalloides is the death cup (or death cap). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a sort of fungus. ] The poisonous principle of some fungi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Anglo'cf + mania. ] A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One affected with Anglomania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`nqos flower + mani`a madness. ] A extravagant fondness for flowers. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; book + &unr_; madness: cf. F. bibliomanie. ] A mania for acquiring books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has a mania for books. -- a. Relating to a bibliomaniac. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a bibliomaniac. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fem. of Brahman. ] Any Brahman woman. [ Written also Brahmanee. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bromine + aniline. ] (Chem.) A substance analogous to chloranil but containing bromine in place of chlorine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] A chiromancer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] See Kleptomania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From W.T. Coleman of San Francisco. ] (Min.) A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ From Dalman, the geologist. ] (Paleon.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Same as Dalmania. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. décalcomanie. ] The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.

v. t. To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Demon + mania. ] A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; thirst + &unr_; mania. ] (Med.) A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to dipsomania. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to a domain or to domains. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'eleu`qeros free + E. mania. ] A mania or frantic zeal for freedom. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mad for freedom. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. (Bot.) A poisonous mushroom (Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius), having usually a bright red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. Galli Gauls + mania madness. ] An excessive admiration of what is French. -- Gal`lo*ma"ni*ac n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. Germanicus: cf. F. germanique. See German, n. ] 1. Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Teutonic. [ A loose sense ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, germanium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. germanisme. ] 1. An idiom of the German language. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. L. Germania Germany. ] (Chem.) A rare element, discovered in 1885 in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic number 32. Atomic weight 72.59. It has excellent semiconductor properties, and is used in transistors and diodes. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To reason or write after the manner of the Germans. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Germanized p. pr. & vb. n. Germanizing ] To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The study of human nature. [ R. ] T. W. Collins. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as humanization. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. Same as humanize. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ She ] looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The study of the humanities; polite learning. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A doctrine or ethical point of view that emphasizes the dignity and worth of individual people, rejects claims of supernatural influences on humans, and stresses the need for people to achieve improvement of society and self-fulfillment through reason and to develop human-oriented ethical values without theism. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. humaniste. ] 1. One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff-Herzog. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who pursues the study of the humanities, or polite literature. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One versed in knowledge of human nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A person with a strong concern for human welfare, especially one who emphasizes the dignity and worth of individual people, rejecting claims of supernatural influences on humans, and stressing the need for people to achieve improvement of society and self-fulfillment through reason and to develop human-oriented ethical values without theism; an adherent of humanism. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to polite literature. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of, related to, or adhering to, humanism{ 4 }; humanitarian{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

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 ]

n. A humanist. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]