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{ a. [ Cf. F. cénobitique. ] Of or pertaining to a cenobite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a member of a religious order living in common. Same as Cenobite. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living. Opposite of eremitic.
Syn. -- cenobitic, cenobitical. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Howitzer. ] (Mil.) A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. improbitas; pref. im- not + probitas probity: cf. F. improbité. ] Lack of probity; lack of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Persons . . . cast out for notorious improbity. Hooker.

prop. n. [ L. Jacobus James: cf. F. Jacobite. See 2d Jack. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Eng. Hist.) A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradæus, its leader in the sixth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism. -- Jac`o*bit"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The principles of the Jacobites. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ly`chnos a lamp + bi`os life. ] One who labors at night and sleeps in the day. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Same as Columbite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. obit, L. obitus, fr. obire to go against, to go to meet, (sc. mortem) to die; ob (see Ob-) + ire to go. See Issue. ] 1. Death; decease; the date of one's death. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A funeral solemnity or office; obsequies. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A service for the soul of a deceased person on the anniversary of the day of his death. [ 1913 Webster ]

The emoluments and advantages from oblations, obits, and other sources, increased in value. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Same as obituary; -- by shortenting. [ PJC ]

Post obit [ L. post obitum ]. See Post-obit. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖adv. [ L., on the way; ob (see Ob-) + iter a going, a walk, way. ] In passing; incidentally; by the way. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. obiter dicta (Law), An incidental and collateral opinion uttered by a judge. See Dictum, n., 2 (a). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. obitus death. See Obit. ] Of or pertaining to obits, or days when obits are celebrated; as, obitual days. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of an obituary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Obit. ] Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons; as, an obituary notice; obituary poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Obituaries [ Cf. F. obituaire. See Obit. ] 1. That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially: A notice of the death of a person, published in a newspaper or other periodical, accompanied by a biographical sketch which may be brief ro extended; as, the funeral director arranged placed an obituary in the local papaer. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. pl. The section of a newspaper in which obituaries{ 2 } are printed; as, I saw the notice of his death in the obituaries. [ PJC ]

4. (R. C. Ch.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n., or }. [ Pref. post- + obit. ] (Law) A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. probité, fr. L. probitas, fr. probus good, proper, honest. Cf. Prove. ] Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness. “Probity of mind.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Probity, Integrity. Probity denotes unimpeachable honesty and virtue, shown especially by the performance of those obligations, called imperfect, which the laws of the state do not reach, and can not enforce. Integrity denotes a whole-hearted honesty, and especially that which excludes all injustice that might favor one's self. It has a peculiar reference to uprightness in mutual dealings, transfer of property, and the execution of trusts for others. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A book of the Apocrypha. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Paleon.) An extinct order of arthropods comprising the trilobites. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. trilobite. See Trilobate. ] (Paleon.) Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment. [ 1913 Webster ]