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n. 1. a unit of charge equal to that acquired by the accumulation of one ampere for one second.
Syn. -- coulomb, C [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Opposition to vivisection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One opposed to vivisection [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. assecuratio, fr. assecurare. ] Assurance; certainty. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ LL. assecurare. ] To make sure or safe; to assure. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. assécution, fr. L. assequi to obtain; ad + sequi to follow. ] An obtaining or acquiring. [ Obs. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bisected; p. pr. & vb. n. Bisecting. ] [ L. bis twice + secare, sectum, to cut. ] 1. To cut or divide into two parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) To divide into two equal parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. bissection. ] Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Surg.), the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius Cæsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation; -- called also caesarean.
Syn. -- cesarean section, cesarian section, caesarean section, caesarian section, C-section, cesarean, cesarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. callere to be insensible + E. section. ] Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. B. G. Wilder.

n. (Surg.), the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius Cæsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation; -- called also caesarean.
Syn. -- caesarean section, cesarian section, caesarian section, C-section, cesarean, cesarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

A thin, loosely-woven cotton cloth of a gauze texture, such as is used in pressing cheese curds. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. consceratus, p. p. of conscerare to conscerate; con- + sacrare to consecrate, sacer sacred. See Sacred. ] Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Consecrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Consecrating. ] 1. To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God. [ 1913 Webster ]

One day in the week is . . . consecrated to a holy rest. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. Ex. xxix. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time. Burke.

Syn. -- See Addict. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Consecrator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consecratio: cf. F. consécration. ] The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. [ 1913 Webster ]

Until the days of your consecration be at an end. Lev. viii. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemnly declares it so. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. [ Written also consecrater. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consecratory prayer. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consectaneus. ] Following as a matter of course. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consectarius, fr. consectari to follow after eagerly; con- + sectari to follow eagerly, fr. sequi to follow. ] Following by consequence; consequent; deducible. [ R. ] “Consectary impieties.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue. [ Obs. ] Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consecutio. See Consequent. ] 1. A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A succession or series of any kind. [ Obs. ] Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Month of consecution (Astron.), a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. consécutif. See Consequent. ] 1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding. [ 1913 Webster ]

The actions of a man consecutive to volition. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consecutive chords (Mus.), chords of the same kind succeeding one another without interruption. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a consecutive manner; by way of sequence; successively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being consecutive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For co. secans, an abbrev. of L. complementi secans. ] (Trig.) The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give additional security to or for. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to create one or a series of cross sections{ 3 } by cutting (an object) into thin slices. [ PJC ]

n. 1. a flat plane cutting through a three-dimensional object, usually at right angles to the longest axis of the object. [ PJC ]

2. any visual representation of a cross section{ 1 }, showing the internal structure of the object in the plane of the cross section; as, the technician prepared a series of MRI cross sections of the skull. Different cross sections created by different techniques may show different aspects of internal structure. Thus computerized axial tomography using X-rays shows different structures than are visualized by MRI. [ PJC ]

3. a thin slice of an object made by cutting it transversely; as, to view a cross section of a bacterium with an electron microscope after staining the DNA; cross sections were prepared with a microtome. [ PJC ]

4. a representative sample of a complex group; as, the town contained a cross section of the American population. [ PJC ]

5. (Physics) a measure of the probability that a nucleus will interact in a specified way with a bombarding particle, expressed as the effective area that the nucleus presents to the particle; -- called also nuclear cross section. [ PJC ]

adj. of or pertaining to a cross section; as, a cross-sectional slice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. contraction of caesarean section.
Syn. -- cesarean section, cesarian section, cesarean, cesarian, caesarean. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion n. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ L. desecare to cut off. ] To cut, as with a scythe; to mow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Desecrated p. pr. & vb. n. Desecrating ] [ L. desecratus, p. p. of desecrare (also desacrare) to consecrate, dedicate; but taken in the sense if to divest of a sacred character; de- + sacrare to consecrate, fr. sacer sacred. See Sacred. ] To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The [ Russian ] clergy can not suffer corporal punishment without being previously desecrated. W. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The founders of monasteries imprecated evil on those who should desecrate their donations. Salmon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who desecrates; a profaner. Harper's Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who desecrates. “Desecrators of the church.” Morley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of consecration or sacredness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dissected; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissecting. ] [ L. dissectus, p. p. of dissecare; dis- + secare to cut. See Section. ] 1. (Anat.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely. [ 1913 Webster ]

This paragraph . . . I have dissected for a sample. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Used for or in dissecting; as, a dissecting knife; a dissecting microscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dissection. ] 1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dissection wound, a poisoned wound incurred during the dissection of a dead body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dissecteur. ] One who dissects; an anatomist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action. [ 1913 Webster ]