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1. antiphonary, n. View full entry 1670
...A book containing a set or collection of antiphons....
2. arval, adj. View full entry 1656
...Of or belonging to ploughed land; esp. in Arval Brethren (= Latin Frātres Arvāles), a college of twelve priests in Ancient Rome, who offered sacrifice to the field-Lares...
3. † circumˈcession, n. View full entry 1656
...Put erroneously for circumincession, and circumsession; thence, by Blount explained from Latin cessio yielding....
4. † coˈlobe, n. View full entry 1656
...= colobium...
5. compital, adj. View full entry 1656
...Of or pertaining to the cross-ways: applied to the shrines of the domestic gods placed at the corners of the streets in ancient Rome; also to the compitalia, an annual...
6. consueˈtudinal, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Pertaining to custom, of use and wont. spec. in Philol., esp. as the epithet of a particular mood in Celtic languages....
7. † ˈcroises | ˈcroisees, n. View full entry 1656
...With pl. concord. Those who have been ‘croised’, crusaders. (App. sometimes used by modern writers as an archaism for Crusades, and supplied with erroneous singular croise.)...
8. cynoˈcephalist, n. View full entry 1656
...= cynocephalus...
9. † decretaliarch, n. View full entry 1656
...A word of Rabelais: the lord of decretals, the Pope....
10. desecrate, v. View full entry 1674
...trans. To take away its consecrated or sacred character from (anything); to treat as not sacred or hallowed; to profane....
11. divinize, v. View full entry 1656
...trans. To make or render divine; to deify....
12. eparch, n. View full entry 1656
...Hist. Used as equivalent to the Latin præfectus prefect....
13. fontal, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Of or pertaining to a fountain or spring; coming as from a spring. rare....
14. hagiographer, n. View full entry 1656
...A sacred writer; spec. one of the writers of the Hagiographa....
15. hieratic, adj. View full entry 1656
...Pertaining to or used by the priestly class; used in connection with sacred subjects. spec....
16. hieˈratical, adj. View full entry 1656
...= hieratic...
17. hierogram, n. View full entry 1656
...A sacred symbol; a hieroglyph (lit. and fig.)....
18. hierography, n. View full entry 1656
...A description of sacred things; a description of religions....
19. Hieronymian, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Of or belonging to St. Jerome, the author of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible....
20. hippogriff | hippogryph, n. View full entry 1656
...A fabulous creature, like a griffin, but with body and hind-quarters resembling those of a horse....
