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a. Of or pertaining to the Albigenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ambrosial. [ R. ] . Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ambrosian chant, the mode of signing or chanting introduced by St. Ambrose in the 4th century. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. “Aphrodisian dames” [ that is, courtesans ]. C. Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. artésien, fr. Artois in France, where many such wells have been made since the middle of the last century. ] Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France. [ 1913 Webster ]

Artesian wells, wells made by boring into the earth till the instrument reaches water, which, from internal pressure, flows spontaneously like a fountain. They are usually of small diameter and often of great depth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Asianus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;, L. Asia. ] Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic. “Asian princes.” Jer. Taylor. -- n. An Asiatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Athanasian creed, a formulary, confession, or exposition of faith, formerly supposed to have been drawn up by Athanasius; but this opinion is now rejected, and the composition is ascribed by some to Hilary, bishop of Arles (5th century). It is a summary of what was called the orthodox faith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Australasia. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Austronesia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia.
Syn. -- Belorussian, White Russian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the language spoken in Belarus.
Syn. -- Belarusian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Renatus Cartesius, Latinized from of René Descartes: cf. F. cartésien. ] Of or pertaining to the French philosopher René Descartes, or his philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cartesian coordinates (Geom), distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing geometric quantities, invented by Descartes. --
Cartesian devil, a small hollow glass figure, used in connection with a jar of water having an elastic top, to illustrate the effect of the compression or expansion of air in changing the specific gravity of bodies. --
Cartesion oval (Geom.), a curve such that, for any point of the curve mr + m′r′ = c, where r and r′ are the distances of the point from the two foci and m, m′ and c are constant; -- used by Descartes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adherent of Descartes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The philosophy of Descartes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. Cartusianus, Cartusiensis, from the town of Chartreuse, in France. ] (Eccl. Hist.) A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the Carthusian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Castrensial. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of any of the white races of mankind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.
Syn. -- horned dinosaur. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Circassia. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. Circensis, ludi Circenses, the games in the Circus Maximus. ] Of or pertaining to, or held in, the Circus, In Rome. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pleasure of the Circensian shows. Holyday. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cluniac. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dionysian period, a period of 532 years, depending on the cycle of the sun, or 28 years, and the cycle of the moon, or 19 years; -- sometimes called the Greek paschal cycle, or Victorian period. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Elysius, fr. Elysium. ] Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific. “Elysian shades.” Massinger. “Elysian age.” Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Ephesius: cf. F. éphésien. ] Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native of Ephesus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A jolly companion; a roisterer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. etesiae, pl., periodic winds, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; year: cf. F. étésien. ] Periodical; annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ European + Asian. ] 1. A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One born of European parents in Asia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. adj. of or pertaining to Gauss{ 2 }; as, a Gaussian distribution. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hessian boots, or
Hessians, boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray. --
Hessian cloth, or
Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for sacking. --
Hessian crucible. See under Crucible. --
Hessian fly (Zool.), a small dipterous fly or midge (Cecidomyia destructor). Its larvae live between the base of the lower leaves and the stalk of wheat, and are very destructive to young wheat; -- so called from the erroneous idea that it was brought into America by the Hessian troops, during the Revolution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Hesse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mercenary or venal person. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This use is a relic of the patriot hatred of the Hessian mercenaries who served with the British troops in the Revolutionary War. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. See Hessian boots and cloth, under Hessian, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hetero- + Gr. &unr_; being, essence. ] Having different essential qualities; of a different nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A breed of dairy cattle from North Holland and Friesland; they have a black and white color to their fur.
Syn. -- Friesian, Holstein. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, of like substance; "o`moios + o'ysi`a the substance, being, essence.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of the semi-Arians of the 4th century, who held that the Son was of like, but not the same, essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoousian. [1913 Webster]

a. Of or pertaining to Homoiousians, or their belief. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; the same + &unr_; being, essence, substance. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Indo- + Gr. &unr_; island. ] Of or pertaining to Indonesia or Indonesians. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A member of a race forming the chief pre-Malay population of the Malay Archipelago, and probably sprung from a mixture of Polynesian and Mongoloid immigrants. According to Keane, the autochthonous Negritos were largely expelled by the Caucasian Polynesians, themselves followed by Mongoloid peoples of Indo-Chinese affinities, from mixture with whom sprang the
Indonesian race. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The term Indonesian, introduced by Logan to designate the light-colored non-Malay inhabitants of the Eastern Archipelago, is now used as a convenient collective name for all the peoples of Malaysia and Polynesia who are neither Malay nor Papuans, but of Caucasic type. . . . The true Indonesians are of tall stature (5 ft. 10 in.), muscular frame, rather oval features, high, open forehead, large straight or curved nose, large full eyes always horizontal and with no trace of the third lid, light brown complexion (cinnamon or ruddy brown), long black hair, not lank but often slightly curled or wavy, skull generally brachycephalous like that of the melanochroic European. A. H. Keane. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The Indonesians [ of the Philippines ], with the tribal population of some 251, 200, live almost exclusively on the great island of Mindanao. They are not only physically superior to the Negritos, but to the peoples of the Malayan race as well, and are, as a rule, quite intelligent. Rep. Phil. Com. , 1902. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A native or inhabitant of Indonesia. [ PJC ]

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

The Jonesian system, a system of transliterating Oriental words by English letters, invented by Sir William Jones.

adj. 1. Of or pertaining to John Maynard Keynes; conforming to the theories of Keynesianism; -- especially, the term is used to refer to the macroeconomic theories and politico-economic policies proposed by Keynes and his followers, especially in regards to their advocacy of governmental action to maintain low unemployment through government spending. Keynes's book “The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money” (Macmillan, 1936) had a strong influence on views of the government's role in the economy through the 1970's. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. A believer in the theories of Keynesianism. [ PJC ]

adj. the macroeconomic theories and politico-economic policies of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) and his followers; -- used especially in reference to their advocacy of governmental action to maintain low unemployment through government spending. See Keynes. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]