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n. 1. (Min.) A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. ] (Rom. Antiq.) A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There were three kinds of comitia: comitia curiata, or assembly of the patricians, who voted in curiæ; comitia centuriata, or assembly of the whole Roman people, who voted by centuries; and comitia tributa, or assembly of the plebeians according to their division into tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. comitialis. ] Relating to the comitia, or popular assemblies of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws. Middleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] A body of followers; -- applied to the lawless or brigand bands in Italy and Sicily. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Comities [ L. comitas, fr. comis courteous, kind. ] Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States. [ 1913 Webster ]

Comity of nations (International Law), the courtesy by which nations recognize within their own territory, or in their courts, the peculiar institutions of another nation or the rights and privileges acquired by its citizens in their own land. By some authorities private international law rests on this comity, but the better opinion is that it is part of the common law of the land, and hence is obligatory as law.

Syn. -- Civility; good breeding; courtesy; good will. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Compromitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Compromitting. ] [ L. compromittere. See Compromise, n. ] 1. To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise. State Trials (1529). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Cf. F. concomitance, fr. LL. concomitantia. ] 1. The state of accompanying; accompaniment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R.C.Ch.) The doctrine of the existence of the entire body of Christ in the eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by communicating in one kind only. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., fr. L. con- + comitari to accompany, comes companion. See Count a nobleman. ] Accompanying; conjoined; attending. [ 1913 Webster ]

It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reproach is a concomitant to greatness. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The other concomitant of ingratitude is hardheartedness. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In company with others; unitedly; concurrently. Bp. pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ After the French geologist Dolomieu. ] (Geol. & Min.) A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to dolomite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. domitare to tame, fr. domare. ] That can be tamed. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

v. t. [ L. evomitus, p. p. of evomere to vomit forth; e out + vomere. ] To vomit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of vomiting. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of comity; incivility; rudeness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. indomitabilis; pref. in- not + domitare, intens. fr. domare to tame. See Tame. ] Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. indomitus. ] Not tamed; untamed; savage; wild. [ Obs. ] J. Salkeld. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Intromitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Intromitting. ] [ L. intromittere, intromissum; intro- within + mittere to send. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To send in or put in; to insert or introduce. Greenhill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To allow to pass in; to admit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glass in the window intromits light, without cold. Holder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Scots Law) To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intromittens, p. pr. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Throwing, or allowing to pass, into or within. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who intromits. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., Gr. ka`ryon a nut + mi`tos a thread. ] (Biol.) The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell. W. Flemming. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. ky`tos a hollow vessel + mi`tos a thread. ] (Biol.) See Karyomiton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Omitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Omitting. ] [ L. omittere, omissum; ob (see Ob- + mittere to cause to go, let go, send. See Mission. ] 1. To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop. [ 1913 Webster ]

These personal comparisons I omit. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect; to pass over. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted; forbearance; neglect. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who omits. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An Ottoman. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. posse to be able, to have power + LL. comitatus a county, from comes, comitis, a count. See County, and Power. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Law) The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection of people; a throng; a rabble. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word comitatus is often omitted, and posse alone used. “A whole posse of enthusiasts.” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if the passion that rules were the sheriff of the place, and came off with all the posse. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Proto- + somite. ] (Zool.) One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An inhabitant of Sodom. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One guilty of sodomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy. -- Sod`om*it"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma body. ] (Anat. & Zool.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A Thomaean. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Vomited; p. pr. & vb. n. Vomiting. ] [ Cf. L. vomere, vomitum, and v. freq. vomitare. See Vomit, n. ] To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fish . . . vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. Jonah ii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vomitus, from vomere, vomitum, to vomit; akin to Gr. &unr_;, Skr. vam, Lith. vemiti. Cf. Emetic, Vomito. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) That which excites vomiting; an emetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

He gives your Hollander a vomit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black vomit. (Med.) See in the Vocabulary. --
Vomit nut, nux vomica. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vomitio. ] The act or power of vomiting. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. vomitif. ] Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. vómito, fr. L. vomitus. See Vomit, n. ] (Med.) The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. vomitorious. ] Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Vomitories 1. An emetic; a vomit. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ L. vomitorium. ] (Arch.) A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sixty-four vomitories . . . poured forth the immense multitude. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]