Cel-Ongonean
Ruler of the Ûmeri Empire, defeated by Aulyanau the Con­queror at the Bat­tle of Riv­er Ax­au, leading to the beginning of the Cond Yoke.

Celestial
"Celestial Aphorisms" Celestial Aphorisms is one of the philosopher Memgowa 's most celebrated texts .

Excerpts

"Souls can no more see the origins of their thought than they can see the backs of their heads or the insides of their entrails. And since souls cannot differentiate what they cannot see, there is a peculiar sense in which the soul cannot self-differentiate. So it is always, in a peculiar sense, the same time when they think, the same place where they think, and the same individual who does the thinking. Like tipping a spiral on its side until only a circle can be seen, the passage of moments always remains now, the carnival of spaces always sojourns here, and the succession of people always becomes me. The truth is, if the soul could apprehend itself the way it apprehended the world -- if it could apprehend its origins -- it would see that there is no now, there is no here, and there is no me. In other words, it would realize that just as there is no circle, there is no soul." "If the immutable appears recast, then you yourself have been transformed."

Celestial Aphorisms
Celestial Aphorisms is one of the philosopher Memgowa 's most celebrated texts .

Excerpts

"Souls can no more see the origins of their thought than they can see the backs of their heads or the insides of their entrails. And since souls cannot differentiate what they cannot see, there is a peculiar sense in which the soul cannot self-differentiate. So it is always, in a peculiar sense, the same time when they think, the same place where they think, and the same individual who does the thinking. Like tipping a spiral on its side until only a circle can be seen, the passage of moments always remains now, the carnival of spaces always sojourns here, and the succession of people always becomes me. The truth is, if the soul could apprehend itself the way it apprehended the world -- if it could apprehend its origins -- it would see that there is no now, there is no here, and there is no me. In other words, it would realize that just as there is no circle, there is no soul." "If the immutable appears recast, then you yourself have been transformed."

Celmomas
"Anasûrimbor Celmomas II" Anasûrimbor Celmomas II was the leader of the coalition against Golgotterath in the early days of the Apocalypse , and the last and greatest of the Kûniüric High Kings. He was a close friend of the sorcerer Seswatha , who often acted as his advisor. Celmomas was married to Suriala , and among his sons were Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II and the famous war hero Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti . But perhaps Nau-Cayûti was in truth the bastard son of Suriala and Seswatha. In the Apocalypse’s early years, Celmomas was fatally wounded in battle by a Sranc chieftain during the Battle of Eleneöt Fields . With his dying words, he prophesied to Seswatha that a descendant of his would return at the end of the world. While few in the Three Seas believe the Celmomian Prophecy , as it is known, most Mandate scholars think it authentic. In particular, Drusas Achamian believes that the prophecy refers to Anasûrimbor Kellhus . Celmomas wielded a large ensorcelled sword named Glimir, which was said to pass through foes with great ease.

Anasûrimbor Celmomas II

Title(s): High King of Kûniüri White Lord of Trysë
Lived: 2089 - 2146
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Kûniüri
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I (ancestor) Anasûrimbor Huörmomas (brother) Suriala (wife) Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II (son) Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti (son)(?) Anasûrimbor Moënghus (descendant) Anasûrimbor Kellhus (descendant)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before (flashbacks only)

Anasûrimbor Celmomas II

Title(s): High King of Kûniüri White Lord of Trysë
Lived: 2089 - 2146
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Kûniüri
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I (ancestor) Anasûrimbor Huörmomas (brother) Suriala (wife) Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II (son) Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti (son)(?) Anasûrimbor Moënghus (descendant) Anasûrimbor Kellhus (descendant)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before (flashbacks only)

Celmomian
"Celmomian Prophecy" Celmomian Prophecy is the dying words of Anasûrimbor Celmomas II to Seswatha on the Fields of Eleneöt in 2146 to the effect that an Anasûrimbor would return at “the end of the world.” Given that the prevention of the so-called Second Apocalypse is the Mandate ’s entire reason for existence, it is perhaps no surprise that most Mandate scholars think the Celmomian Prophecy authentic. Few others in the Three Seas credit their claims, however.

Celmomian Prophecy
Celmomian Prophecy is the dying words of Anasûrimbor Celmomas II to Seswatha on the Fields of Eleneöt in 2146 to the effect that an Anasûrimbor would return at “the end of the world.” Given that the prevention of the so-called Second Apocalypse is the Mandate ’s entire reason for existence, it is perhaps no surprise that most Mandate scholars think the Celmomian Prophecy authentic. Few others in the Three Seas credit their claims, however.

Cememketri
Cememketri is the Grandmaster of the Imperial Saik

The Thousandfold Thought

Cememketri is slain by Drusas Achamian during the battle for Shimeh .

Cememketri

Title(s): Grandmaster
Lived: 4046 - 4112
Race: Men
Nationality: Shiropti
Gender: Male
Occupation: Grandmaster of the Imperial Saik
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Thousandfold Thought

Cememketri

Title(s): Grandmaster
Lived: 4046 - 4112
Race: Men
Nationality: Shiropti
Gender: Male
Occupation: Grandmaster of the Imperial Saik
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Thousandfold Thought

Cenei
"Annals of Cenei" The Annals of Cenei is a classic treatise of Casidas , covering the history of Cenei and the Ceneian Empire from the Imperial City’s legendary foundation in 809 to the time of Casidas’s death in 3142.

Excerpts

“The difference between the strong emperor and the weak is simply this: the former makes the world his arena, while the latter makes it his harem.” “That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.” “Ever do Men use secrets to sort and measure those they love, which is why they are less honest with their brothers and more guarded with their friends.”

Ceneian
"Ceneian Empire" The Ceneian Empire was the greatest Ketyai empire in history, embracing the entirety of the Three Seas at its greatest extent, from the Atkondras Mountains in the southwest, to Lake Huösi in the north, to the Great Kayarsus Mountains in the southeast. The primary agent in the creation and maintenance of this empire was the Ceneian Imperial Army, which was perhaps the best trained and organized in history. No more than a minor river trading town in the days of Kyraneas , Cenei emerged from the Age of Warring Cities as the pre-eminent city of the Kyranae Plains . The conquest of Gielgath in 2349 sealed the city’s regional dominance, and in the ensuing decades the Ceneians under Xercallas II would secure the remnants of what had once been Kyraneas. Xercallas’s successors continued his aggressive, expansionist policies, first pacifying the Norsirai tribes of Cepalor , then waging three consecutive wars against Shigek , which fell in 2397. Then, in 2414, after conquering Enathpaneah , Xerash , and Amoteu , General Naxentas staged a successful coup and declared himself Emperor of Cenei. Though he would be assassinated the following year, all his successors would avail themselves of the Imperial institutions he created. Triamis the Great became Emperor in 2478, beginning what most scholars consider the Ceneian Golden Age . In 2483 he conquered Nilnamesh , and then Cingulat the following year. In 2485, he defeated a great Zeümi host at Amarah , and would have invaded the Satyothi nation had no mutinies among his homesick troops prevented him. He spent the next decade consolidating his gains, and striving against the internecine religious violence between followers of the traditional Kiünnat sects and the growing numbers of Inrithi . It was in the course of negotiating settlements that he became friends with the then Shriah of the Thousand Temples , Ekyannus III , and in 2505 he himself converted to Inrithism, declaring it the official state religion of the Ceneian Empire. He spent the next ten years putting down religious rebellions, while at the same time invading and occupying both Cironj (2508) and Nron (2511). He then spent ten years campaigning across the eastern Three Seas against the successor nations of the old Shiradi Empire , first conquering Ainon (2518), then Cengemis (2519), and finally Annand (2525). Ensuing Aspect-Emperors would marginally add to the extent of the empire, but its boundaries remained fairly stable for nearly eight hundred years, during which time the language and institutions of Imperial Cenei and the Thousand Temples would be stitched into the very fabric of Three Seas society. Aside from periodic wars with Zeüm, and the interminable wars against the Scylvendi and Norsirai tribes across the empire’s northern frontier, this would be an age of unprecedented peace, prosperity, and commerce. Only the periodic civil wars, usually fought over succession, posed any real threat to the empire. Though Cenei itself was destroyed by the Scylvendi under Horiötha in 3351, historians traditionally date the collapse of the Ceneian Empire in 3372, when General Maurelta surrendered to Sarothesser I in Ainon.

Emperors

- Xercallas II
- Stajanas II
- Naxentas
- Pirras Boksarias
- Siaxas II
- Triamis the Great

Cities

- Cenei
- Mamot

Ceneian Empire
The Ceneian Empire was the greatest Ketyai empire in history, embracing the entirety of the Three Seas at its greatest extent, from the Atkondras Mountains in the southwest, to Lake Huösi in the north, to the Great Kayarsus Mountains in the southeast. The primary agent in the creation and maintenance of this empire was the Ceneian Imperial Army, which was perhaps the best trained and organized in history. No more than a minor river trading town in the days of Kyraneas , Cenei emerged from the Age of Warring Cities as the pre-eminent city of the Kyranae Plains . The conquest of Gielgath in 2349 sealed the city’s regional dominance, and in the ensuing decades the Ceneians under Xercallas II would secure the remnants of what had once been Kyraneas. Xercallas’s successors continued his aggressive, expansionist policies, first pacifying the Norsirai tribes of Cepalor , then waging three consecutive wars against Shigek , which fell in 2397. Then, in 2414, after conquering Enathpaneah , Xerash , and Amoteu , General Naxentas staged a successful coup and declared himself Emperor of Cenei. Though he would be assassinated the following year, all his successors would avail themselves of the Imperial institutions he created. Triamis the Great became Emperor in 2478, beginning what most scholars consider the Ceneian Golden Age . In 2483 he conquered Nilnamesh , and then Cingulat the following year. In 2485, he defeated a great Zeümi host at Amarah , and would have invaded the Satyothi nation had no mutinies among his homesick troops prevented him. He spent the next decade consolidating his gains, and striving against the internecine religious violence between followers of the traditional Kiünnat sects and the growing numbers of Inrithi . It was in the course of negotiating settlements that he became friends with the then Shriah of the Thousand Temples , Ekyannus III , and in 2505 he himself converted to Inrithism, declaring it the official state religion of the Ceneian Empire. He spent the next ten years putting down religious rebellions, while at the same time invading and occupying both Cironj (2508) and Nron (2511). He then spent ten years campaigning across the eastern Three Seas against the successor nations of the old Shiradi Empire , first conquering Ainon (2518), then Cengemis (2519), and finally Annand (2525). Ensuing Aspect-Emperors would marginally add to the extent of the empire, but its boundaries remained fairly stable for nearly eight hundred years, during which time the language and institutions of Imperial Cenei and the Thousand Temples would be stitched into the very fabric of Three Seas society. Aside from periodic wars with Zeüm, and the interminable wars against the Scylvendi and Norsirai tribes across the empire’s northern frontier, this would be an age of unprecedented peace, prosperity, and commerce. Only the periodic civil wars, usually fought over succession, posed any real threat to the empire. Though Cenei itself was destroyed by the Scylvendi under Horiötha in 3351, historians traditionally date the collapse of the Ceneian Empire in 3372, when General Maurelta surrendered to Sarothesser I in Ainon.

Emperors

- Xercallas II
- Stajanas II
- Naxentas
- Pirras Boksarias
- Siaxas II
- Triamis the Great

Cities

- Cenei
- Mamot

Cengemic
Language of Cengemis . Derived from Sheyo-Kheremic . One of the Ketyai languages .

Cengemis
Cengemis is the province that once marked the northern limit of the Eastern Ceneian Empire . After the collapse of the Eastern Empire in 3372, it enjoyed independence until overrun by Tydonni tribes in 3742.

Cities

- Marsadda

Cepalor
Cepalor is a region of temperate, semi-forested plains extending east of the Hethanta Mountains from the Nansur frontier to the southwestern marches of Galeoth . Since the fall of Kyraneas , Cepalor has been inhabited by Norsirai pastoralists known as the Cepalorae (Cepaloran), who have long been tributaries of the Nansurium.

Cepaloran
Language group of pastoralists of the Cepaloran Plains. Derived from Meoric . One of the Norsirai languages .

Languages derived from Cepaloran

- Nymbricani : Language of the Nymbricani clans.

Cerish
The Cerish Sea is the largest of Eärwa ’s inland seas.

Rivers Emptying Into Cerish

- River Tywanrae

Cerjulla
"Sheorog Cerjulla" Sheorog Cerjulla is the Tydonni Earl of Warnute .

The Warrior-Prophet

During the Holy War , men under the command of Cerjulla storm the walled town of Chiama and massacre all within. Cerjulla later dies of disease during the siege of Caraskand .

Sheorog Cerjulla

Title(s): Earl of Warnute
Lived: 4069 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Tydonni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Warnute
Relatives: Sheorog Gauslas (son)
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Sheorog Cerjulla

Title(s): Earl of Warnute
Lived: 4069 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Tydonni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Warnute
Relatives: Sheorog Gauslas (son)
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Cern
"Cern Auglai" Cern Auglai is a fortress and pirate entrepôt located on the coast of Thunyerus . The Earl of Cern Auglai is Goken the Red .

Cern Auglai
Cern Auglai is a fortress and pirate entrepôt located on the coast of Thunyerus . The Earl of Cern Auglai is Goken the Red .

Cet'ingira
Cet’ingira , also known as Mekeritrig (“Traitor of Men” in Kûniüric), is an Erratic Nonman Siqû and powerful Qûya who revealed the location of the Min-Uroikas to the School of Mangaecca in 777, and who would become a ranking member of the Consult during the Apocalypse .

What Came Before

Cet’ingira was sent on an expedition together with two Ishroi into the depths of the Incû-Holoinas by Nil’giccas following the end of the Cûno-Inchoroi Wars . They beheld the Inverse Fire . The two Ishroi, Misariccas and Runidil , were driven to madness by the sight of it, while Cet’ingira appeared able to keep his wits. Upon returning, Cet’ingira advised the King to have the other two killed. Unknown to the others, Cet'ingira had also been affected, and was now wholly convinced of Damnation and the Inchoroi's mission to close the world to the Outside . Over the following centuries, Cet'ingira disguised his true intentions. It was he who advised Nil'giccas to begin the Nonman Tutelage of the Men - ostensibly to teach the Nonmen's knowledge to the younger race, but in reality so that he could secretly pass on the Inchoroi's revelation.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Anâsurimbor Kellhus meets Cet'ingira on his long way south in the ruins of a Nonman fortress after killing a pack of Sranc . Cet'ingira, amused, eyes the many dead Sranc around Kellhus and notes that among those killed by him, one was his Eljû , a Sranc he and other Nonmen used as a "book". He then attacks after Kellhus prods him with various questions, and he senses that Kellhus has the same blood as one of the many skinned faces he uses as a part of his cloak. To his surprise, Kellhus outmatches him in their sword fight, but Cet'ingira overpowers him by using sorcery and forces the Dûnyain to flee.

The Thousandfold Thought

Drusas Achamian sees Cet'ingira in a Seswatha's dream relived by Nautzera . The Evil Siqû interrogates the ancient hero in the recently fallen Dagliash , but is broken himself and weeps at his own degradation and the pain he causes Seswatha, who he viewed, in a way, as his child. Achamian sees that completely covering the walls of Dagliash are hundreds upon hundreds of twitching human forms, all held up by immense nails driven through their torsos and groins.

The Unholy Consult

At the battle of Golgotterath , Anâsurimbor Kellhus tears off his head. Thus died the Evil Siqû, and his soul was cast down to Hell, to suffer eternally.

Cet’ingira

Title(s): The Evil Siqû
Aliases: Mekeritrig Mantraitor
Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Cûnuroi
Gender: Male
Occupation: Siqû Qûya Member of the Consult
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Thousandfold Thought (flashbacks only) The Unholy Consult

Cet’ingira

Title(s): The Evil Siqû
Aliases: Mekeritrig Mantraitor
Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Cûnuroi
Gender: Male
Occupation: Siqû Qûya Member of the Consult
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Thousandfold Thought (flashbacks only) The Unholy Consult

Cet’ingira
Cet’ingira , also known as Mekeritrig (“Traitor of Men” in Kûniüric), is an Erratic Nonman Siqû and powerful Qûya who revealed the location of the Min-Uroikas to the School of Mangaecca in 777, and who would become a ranking member of the Consult during the Apocalypse .

What Came Before

Cet’ingira was sent on an expedition together with two Ishroi into the depths of the Incû-Holoinas by Nil’giccas following the end of the Cûno-Inchoroi Wars . They beheld the Inverse Fire . The two Ishroi, Misariccas and Runidil , were driven to madness by the sight of it, while Cet’ingira appeared able to keep his wits. Upon returning, Cet’ingira advised the King to have the other two killed. Unknown to the others, Cet'ingira had also been affected, and was now wholly convinced of Damnation and the Inchoroi's mission to close the world to the Outside . Over the following centuries, Cet'ingira disguised his true intentions. It was he who advised Nil'giccas to begin the Nonman Tutelage of the Men - ostensibly to teach the Nonmen's knowledge to the younger race, but in reality so that he could secretly pass on the Inchoroi's revelation.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Anâsurimbor Kellhus meets Cet'ingira on his long way south in the ruins of a Nonman fortress after killing a pack of Sranc . Cet'ingira, amused, eyes the many dead Sranc around Kellhus and notes that among those killed by him, one was his Eljû , a Sranc he and other Nonmen used as a "book". He then attacks after Kellhus prods him with various questions, and he senses that Kellhus has the same blood as one of the many skinned faces he uses as a part of his cloak. To his surprise, Kellhus outmatches him in their sword fight, but Cet'ingira overpowers him by using sorcery and forces the Dûnyain to flee.

The Thousandfold Thought

Drusas Achamian sees Cet'ingira in a Seswatha's dream relived by Nautzera . The Evil Siqû interrogates the ancient hero in the recently fallen Dagliash , but is broken himself and weeps at his own degradation and the pain he causes Seswatha, who he viewed, in a way, as his child. Achamian sees that completely covering the walls of Dagliash are hundreds upon hundreds of twitching human forms, all held up by immense nails driven through their torsos and groins.

The Unholy Consult

At the battle of Golgotterath , Anâsurimbor Kellhus tears off his head. Thus died the Evil Siqû, and his soul was cast down to Hell, to suffer eternally.

Cet’ingira

Title(s): The Evil Siqû
Aliases: Mekeritrig Mantraitor
Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Cûnuroi
Gender: Male
Occupation: Siqû Qûya Member of the Consult
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Thousandfold Thought (flashbacks only) The Unholy Consult

Cet’ingira

Title(s): The Evil Siqû
Aliases: Mekeritrig Mantraitor
Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Cûnuroi
Gender: Male
Occupation: Siqû Qûya Member of the Consult
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Thousandfold Thought (flashbacks only) The Unholy Consult

Cet’moyol
Cet'moyol was the son of Cu'huriol , King of Siöl , and the father of Cû'jara-Cinmoi .

Story

Cet'moyol and his sister Linqirû engaged in an incestuous affair, leading to the birth of Cû'jara-Cinmoi . After the birth of their son, both Cet'moyol and Linqirû were executed on their father's orders . The affair between Cet'moyol and Linqirû is recounted in the Lay of Linqirû (also known as the Incest Song of Linqirû) . It is also frequently compared to the legendary relationship between Tsonos and his sister Olissis .

Trivia

- Cet'moyol's name is spelled "Cet'moiol" in chapter 12 of The Great Ordeal .

Cet'moyol

Title(s): Prince
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Cûnuroi
Nationality: Siölan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prince of Siöl
Relatives: Cu’huriol (father) Morimhira (uncle) Linqirû (sister/lover) Cû’jara-Cinmoi (son) Hanalinqû (daughter-in-law) Cu’cûlol (kinsman)
Books: The Great Ordeal (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Cet'moyol

Title(s): Prince
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Cûnuroi
Nationality: Siölan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prince of Siöl
Relatives: Cu’huriol (father) Morimhira (uncle) Linqirû (sister/lover) Cû’jara-Cinmoi (son) Hanalinqû (daughter-in-law) Cu’cûlol (kinsman)
Books: The Great Ordeal (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

cease
-to come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.
-to be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
-to put a stop to; to bring to an end.
-extinction.

ceased
-of cease

ceaseless
-without pause or end; incessant.
-without intermission or end.

ceasing
-of cease

cecidomyia
-a genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the hessian fly. see hessian fly.

cecity
-blindness.

cecutiency
-partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness.

cedar
-the name of several evergreen trees. the wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.
-of or pertaining to cedar.

cedared
-covered, or furnished with, cedars.

cedarn
-of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.

cede
-to yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.

ceded
-of cede

cedilla
-a mark placed under the letter c [thus, c], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in facade.

ceding
-of cede

cedrat
-properly the citron, a variety of citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.

cedrene
-a rich aromatic oil, c15h24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type.

cedrine
-of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree.

cedriret
-same as coerulignone.

cedry
-of the nature of cedar.

cedule
-a scroll; a writing; a schedule.

ceduous
-fit to be felled.

ceil
-to overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.
-to line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.

ceiled
-of ceil

ceiling
-of ceil
-the inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.
-the lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.
-the inner planking of a vessel.

ceint
-a girdle.

celadon
-a pale sea
-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

celandine
-a perennial herbaceous plant (chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. it is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron
-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch;
-- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.

celature
-the act or art of engraving or embossing.
-that which is engraved.

celebrant
-one who performs a public religious rite;
-- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the roman catholic church, as distinguished from his assistants.

celebrate
-to extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the most high.
-to honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.
-to perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to celebrate a marriage.

celebrated
-of celebrate
-having celebrity; distinguished; renowned.

celebrating
-of celebrate

celebration
-the act, process, or time of celebrating.

celebrator
-one who celebrates; a praiser.

celebrious
-famous.

celebrities
-of celebrity

celebrity
-celebration; solemnization.
-the state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of washington.
-a person of distinction or renown;
-- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.

celeriac
-turnip
-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food.

celerity
-rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

celery
-a plant of the parsley family (apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.

celestial
-belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
-of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine.
-an inhabitant of heaven.
-a native of china.

celestialize
-to make celestial.

celestially
-in a celestial manner.

celestify
-to make like heaven.

celestine
-alt. of celestite
-alt. of celestinian

celestinian
-a monk of the austere branch of the franciscan order founded by celestine v. in the 13th centry.

celestite
-native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. it occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.

celiac
-see coellac.
-relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.

celibacy
-the state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.

celibate
-celibate state; celibacy.
-one who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.
-unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.

celibatist
-one who lives unmarried.

celidography
-a description of apparent spots on the disk of the sun, or on planets.

cell
-a very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
-a small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
-any small cavity, or hollow place.
-the space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
-same as cella.
-a jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
-one of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
-to place or inclose in a cell.

cella
-the part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.

cellar
-a room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

cellarage
-the space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar.
-chare for storage in a cellar.

cellarer
-a steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

cellaret
-a receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

cellarist
-same as cellarer.

celled
-of cell
-containing a cell or cells.

cellepore
-a genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the bryozoa.

celli
-of cello

celliferous
-bearing or producing cells.

cello
-a contraction for violoncello.

cellos
-of cello

cellular
-consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.

cellulated
-cellular.

cellule
-a small cell.

celluliferous
-bearing or producing little cells.

cellulitis
-an inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.

celluloid
-a substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. it is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs;
-- originally called xylonite.

cellulose
-consisting of, or containing, cells.
-the substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. it is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. it is a carbohydrate, (c6h10o5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. when pure, it is a white amorphous mass. see starch, granulose, lignin.

celotomy
-the act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia.

celsiture
-height; altitude.

celsius
-the celsius thermometer or scale, so called from anders celsius, a swedish astronomer, who invented it. it is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.

celt
-one of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of central and western europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy ireland, wales, the highlands of scotland, and the northern shores of france.
-a weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early celtic nations.

celtiberian
-of or pertaining to the ancient celtiberia (a district in spain lying between the ebro and the tagus) or its inhabitants the celtiberi (celts of the river iberus).
-an inhabitant of celtiberia.

celtic
-of or pertaining to the celts; as, celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue.
-the language of the celts.

celticism
-a custom of the celts, or an idiom of their language.

celticize
-to render celtic; to assimilate to the celts.

cembalo
-an old name for the harpsichord.

cement
-any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
-a kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
-the powder used in cementation. see cementation, n., 2.
-bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
-the layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth;
-- called also cementum.
-to unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
-to unite firmly or closely.
-to overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
-to become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.

cemental
-of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.

cementation
-the act or process of cementing.
-a process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.

cementatory
-having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly.

cemented
-of cement

cementer
-a person or thing that cements.

cementing
-of cement

cementitious
-of the nature of cement.

cemeterial
-of or pertaining to a cemetery.

cemeteries
-of cemetery

cemetery
-a place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

cenanthy
-the absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

cenation
-meal
-taking; dining or supping.

cenatory
-of or pertaining to dinner or supper.

cenobite
-one of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

cenobitic
-alt. of cenobitical

cenobitical
-of or pertaining to a cenobite.

cenobitism
-the state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.

cenogamy
-the state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.

cenotaph
-an empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.

cenotaphy
-a cenotaph.

cenozoic
-belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or age of mammals, and the quaternary, or age of man. [written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] see geology.

cense
-a census;
-- also, a public rate or tax.
-condition; rank.
-to perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.
-to burn or scatter incense.

censed
-of cense

censer
-a vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.

censing
-of cense

censor
-one of two magistrates of rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
-one who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious;
-- an official in some european countries.
-one given to fault
-finding; a censurer.
-a critic; a reviewer.

censorial
-belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
-full of censure; censorious.

censorian
-censorial.

censorious
-addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
-implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.

censorship
-the office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.

censual
-relating to, or containing, a census.

censurable
-deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.

censure
-judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
-the act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.
-judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
-to form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
-to find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.
-to condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.
-to judge.

censured
-of censure

censurer
-one who censures.

censuring
-of censure

census
-a numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.;
-- usually made once in five years.
-an official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.

cent
-a hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
-a united states coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
-an old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet;
-- so called because 100 points won the game.

centage
-rate by the hundred; percentage.

cental
-a weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois;
-- called in many parts of the united states a hundredweight.
-relating to a hundred.

centare
-a measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.

centaur
-a fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
-a constellation in the southern heavens between hydra and the southern cross.

centaurea
-a large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (centaurea cyanus) and the star thistle (c. calcitrapa).

centaury
-a gentianaceous plant not fully identified. the name is usually given to the erytheraea centaurium and the chlora perfoliata of europe, but is also extended to the whole genus sabbatia, and even to the unrelated centaurea.

centenarian
-of or relating to a hundred years.
-a person a hundred years old.

centenaries
-of centenary

centenary
-relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.
-occurring once in every hundred years; centennial.
-the aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century.
-a commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before.

centennial
-relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.
-happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.
-lasting or aged a hundred years.
-the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.

centennially
-once in a hundred years.

center
-a point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
-the middle or central portion of anything.
-a principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.
-the earth.
-those members of a legislative assembly (as in france) who support the existing government. they sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, see right, and left.
-a temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self
-supporting.
-one of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
-a conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
-alt. of centre
-alt. of centre

centerbit
-alt. of centrebit

centerboard
-alt. of centreboard

centered
-of centre

centerfire cartridge
-see under cartridge.

centering
-of centre
-same as center, n., 6.

centerpiece
-alt. of centrepiece

centesimal
-hundredth.
-a hundredth part.

centesimation
-the infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.

centesimo
-a copper coin of italy and spain equivalent to a centime.

centesm
-hundredth.

centiare
-see centare.

centicipitous
-hundred
-headed.

centifidous
-divided into a hundred parts.

centifolious
-having a hundred leaves.

centigrade
-consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts.
-of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10¡ centigrade (or 10¡ c.).

centigram
-alt. of centigramme

centigramme
-the hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. see gram.

centiliter
-alt. of centilitre

centilitre
-the hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce.

centiloquy
-a work divided into a hundred parts.

centime
-the hundredth part of a franc; a small french copper coin and money of account.

centimeter
-alt. of centimetre

centimetre
-the hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty
-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. see meter.

centinel
-sentinel.

centinody
-a weed with a stem of many joints (illecebrum verticillatum); also, the polygonum aviculare or knotgrass.

centiped
-a species of the myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many
-jointed, and have a great number of feet.

centistere
-the hundredth part of a stere, equal to .353 cubic feet.

centner
-a weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.
-the commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.

cento
-a literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.

centonism
-the composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos.

centos
-of cento

centra
-of centrum

central
-relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points.
-alt. of centrale

centrale
-the central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. in the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.

centralism
-the state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.
-the system by which power is centralized, as in a government.

centralities
-of centrality

centrality
-the state of being central; tendency towards a center.

centralization
-the act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.

centralize
-to draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.

centralized
-of centralize

centralizing
-of centralize

centrally
-in a central manner or situation.

centre
-to be placed in a center; to be central.
-to be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.
-to place or fix in the center or on a central point.
-to collect to a point; to concentrate.
-to form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
-see center.

centrebit
-an instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. see bit, n., 3.

centreboard
-a movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water
-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. it is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the united states

centred
-of centre

centrepiece
-an ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.

centric
-alt. of centrical

centrical
-placed in the center or middle; central.

centricity
-the state or quality of being centric; centricalness.

centrifugal
-tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
-expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
-having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
-a centrifugal machine.

centrifugence
-the property or quality of being centrifugal.

centring
-of centre
-see centring.

centripetal
-tending, or causing, to approach the center.
-expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
-having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.
-progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.

centripetence
-centripetency.

centripetency
-tendency toward the center.

centriscoid
-allied to, or resembling, the genus centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example.

centrobaric
-relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it.

centrode
-in two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

centroid
-the center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies.

centrolecithal
-having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal.

centrolinead
-an instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center.

centrolineal
-converging to a center;
-- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

centrosome
-a peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. it is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

centrostaltic
-a term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center.

centrum
-the body, or axis, of a vertebra. see vertebra.

centrums
-of centrum

centry
-see sentry.

centumvir
-one of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.

centumviral
-of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.

centumvirate
-the office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.

centumviri
-of centumvir

centuple
-hundredfold.
-to increase a hundredfold.

centuplicate
-to make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times.

centuplicated
-of centuplicate

centuplicating
-of centuplicate

centurial
-of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon.

centuriate
-pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds.
-to divide into hundreds.

centuriator
-alt. of centurist

centuries
-of century

centurion
-a military officer who commanded a minor division of the roman army; a captain of a century.

centurist
-an historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the "magdeburg centuries." see under century.

century
-a hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
-a period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.
-a division of the roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.
-one of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. it was commanded by a centurion.

cepevorous
-feeding upon onions.

cephalad
-forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.

cephalalgia
-alt. of cephalalgy

cephalalgic
-relating to, or affected with, headache.
-a remedy for the headache.

cephalalgy
-pain in the head; headache.

cephalanthium
-same as anthodium.

cephalaspis
-a genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or devonian formation. the head is large, and protected by a broad shield
-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.

cephalata
-a large division of mollusca, including all except the bivalves;
-- so called because the head is distinctly developed. see illustration in appendix.

cephalate
-having a head.

cephalic
-of or pertaining to the head. see the note under anterior.
-a medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.

cephalitis
-same as phrenitis.

cephalization
-domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development.

cephalo
-a combining form denoting the head, of the head, connected with the head; as, cephalosome, cephalopod.

cephalocercal
-relating to the long axis of the body.

cephaloid
-shaped like the head.

cephalology
-the science which treats of the head.

cephalomere
-one of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods.

cephalometer
-an instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery.

cephalon
-the head.

cephalophora
-the cephalata.

cephalopod
-alt. of cephalopode

cephalopoda
-the highest class of mollusca.

cephalopode
-one of the cephalopoda.

cephalopodic
-alt. of cephalopodous

cephalopodous
-belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.

cephaloptera
-one of the generic names of the gigantic ray (manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. it is common on the coasts of south carolina, florida, and farther south. some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

cephalosome
-the anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods.

cephalostyle
-the anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

cephalothorax
-the anterior portion of any one of the arachnida and higher crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.

cephalotome
-an instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery.

cephalotomy
-dissection or opening of the head.
-craniotomy;
-- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw.

cephalotribe
-an obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.

cephalotripsy
-the act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

cephalotrocha
-a kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.

cephalous
-having a head;
-- applied chiefly to the cephalata, a division of mollusks.

cepheus
-a northern constellation near the pole. its head, which is in the milky way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. see cassiopeia.

ceraceous
-having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy.

cerago
-beebread.

ceramic
-of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.

ceramics
-the art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.
-work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc.

cerargyrite
-native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. it may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).

cerasin
-a white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum;
-- called also meta
-arabinic acid.
-a gummy mucilaginous substance;
-- called also bassorin, tragacanthin, etc.

cerasinous
-pertaining to, or containing, cerasin.
-of a cherry color.

cerastes
-a genus of poisonous african serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

cerate
-an unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

cerated
-covered with wax.

ceratine
-sophistical.

ceratobranchia
-a group of nudibranchiate mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.

ceratobranchial
-pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch.
-a ceratobranchial bone, or cartilage.

ceratodus
-a genus of ganoid fishes, of the order dipnoi, first known as mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in australian rivers. they have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. in australia they are called salmon and baramunda. see dipnoi, and archipterygium.

ceratohyal
-pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch.
-a ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid.

ceratosaurus
-a carnivorous american jurassic dinosaur allied to the european megalosaurus. the animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. see illustration in appendix.

ceratospongiae
-an order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. it includes all the commercial sponges.

ceraunics
-that branch of physics which treats of heat and electricity.

ceraunoscope
-an instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.

cerberean
-of or pertaining to, or resembling, cerberus.

cerberus
-a monster, in the shape of a three
-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, hence: any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly.
-a genus of east indian serpents, allied to the pythons; the bokadam.

cercal
-of or pertaining to the tail.

cercaria
-the larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail
-like appendage.

cercarian
-of, like, or pertaining to, the cercariae.
-one of the cercariae.

cercarle
-of cercaria

cerci
-of cercus

cercopod
-one of the jointed antenniform appendages of the posterior somites of certain insects.

cercus
-see cercopod.

cere
-the soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. see beak.
-to wax; to cover or close with wax.

cereal
-of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
-any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself;
-- usually in the plural.

cerealia
-public festivals in honor of ceres.
-the cereals.

cerealin
-a nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid.

cerebel
-the cerebellum.

cerebella
-of cerebellum

cerebellar
-alt. of cerebellous

cerebellous
-pertaining to the cerebellum.

cerebellum
-the large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. it controls combined muscular action. see brain.

cerebellums
-of cerebellum

cerebra
-of cerebrum

cerebral
-of or pertaining to the cerebrum.
-one of a class of lingual consonants in the east indian languages. see lingual, n.

cerebralism
-the doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.

cerebralist
-one who accepts cerebralism.

cerebrate
-to exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

cerebration
-action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.

cerebric
-of, pertaining to, or derived from, the brain.

cerebricity
-brain power.

cerebriform
-like the brain in form or substance.

cerebrifugal
-applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.

cerebrin
-a nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. it is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.

cerebripetal
-applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.

cerebritis
-inflammation of the cerebrum.

cerebro
-spinal
-of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

cerebroid
-resembling, or analogous to, the cerebrum or brain.

cerebrology
-the science which treats of the cerebrum or brain.

cerebropathy
-a hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed;
-- called also brain fag.

cerebroscopy
-examination of the brain for the diagnosis of disease; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope).

cerebrose
-a sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non
-phosphorized principles of the brain.

cerebrum
-the anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. see brain.

cerebrums
-of cerebrum

cerecloth
-a cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter.

cered
-of cere

cerement
-a cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.
-any shroud or wrapping for the dead.

ceremonial
-relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites.
-observant of forms; ceremonious. [in this sense ceremonious is now preferred.]
-a system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form.
-the order for rites and forms in the roman catholic church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions.

ceremonialism
-adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony.

ceremonially
-according to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean.

ceremonialness
-quality of being ceremonial.

ceremonies
-of ceremony

ceremonious
-consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. [in this sense ceremonial is now preferred.]
-according to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious.

ceremoniously
-in a ceremonious way.

ceremoniousness
-the quality, or practice, of being ceremonious.

ceremony
-ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies.
-behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority.
-a ceremonial symbols; an emblem, as a crown, scepter, garland, etc.
-a sign or prodigy; a portent.

cereous
-waxen; like wax.

ceres
-the daughter of saturn and ops or rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.
-the first discovered asteroid.

ceresin
-a white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

cereus
-a genus of plants of the cactus family. they are natives of america, from california to chili.

cerial
-same as cerrial.

ceriferous
-producing wax.

cerin
-a waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol.
-a variety of the mineral allanite.

cering
-of cere

cerinthian
-one of an ancient religious sect, so called from cerinthus, a jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of christ with the opinions of the jews and gnostics.

ceriph
-one of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters.

cerise
-cherry
-colored; a light bright red;
-- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.

cerite
-a gastropod shell belonging to the family cerithiidae;
-- so called from its hornlike form.
-a mineral of a brownish of cherry
-red color, commonly massive. it is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.

cerium
-a rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. symbol ce. atomic weight 141.5. it resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. it tarnishes readily in the air.

cernuous
-inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping;
-- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.

cero
-a large and valuable fish of the mackerel family, of the genus scomberomorus. two species are found in the west indies and less commonly on the atlantic coast of the united states,
-- the common cero (scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (s. regalis).

cerograph
-a writing on wax.

cerographic
-alt. of cerographical

cerographical
-of or pertaining to cerography.

cerographist
-one who practices cerography.

cerography
-the art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
-a method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.

cerolite
-a hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.

ceroma
-the unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient romans.
-that part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.
-the cere of birds.

ceromancy
-divination by dropping melted wax in water.

ceroon
-a bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

ceroplastic
-relating to the art of modeling in wax.
-modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure.

ceroplastics
-alt. of ceroplasty

ceroplasty
-the art of modeling in wax.

cerosin
-a waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae.

cerote
-see cerate.

cerotene
-a white waxy solid obtained from chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

cerotic
-pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.

cerotin
-a white crystalline substance, c27h55.oh, obtained from chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series;
-- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.

cerrial
-of or pertaining to the cerris.

cerris
-a species of oak (quercus cerris) native in the orient and southern europe;
-- called also bitter oak and turkey oak.

certain
-assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
-determined; resolved;
-- used with an infinitive.
-not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
-actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
-unfailing; infallible.
-fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
-not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some;
-- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons.
-certainty.
-a certain number or quantity.
-certainly.

certainly
-without doubt or question; unquestionably.

certainness
-certainty.

certainties
-of certainty

certainty
-the quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
-a fact or truth unquestionable established.
-clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.

certes
-certainly; in truth; verily.

certificate
-a written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior.
-a written declaration legally authenticated.
-to verify or vouch for by certificate.
-to furnish with a certificate; as, to certificate the captain of a vessel; a certificated teacher.

certificated
-of certificate

certificating
-of certificate

certification
-the act of certifying.

certified
-of certify

certifier
-one who certifies or assures.

certify
-to give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.
-to give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify.
-to testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal.

certifying
-of certify

certiorari
-a writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected. it is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court.

certitude
-freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty.

cerule
-blue; cerulean.

cerulean
-sky
-colored; blue; azure.

ceruleous
-cerulean.

cerulific
-producing a blue or sky color.

cerumen
-the yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.

ceruminous
-pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands.

ceruse
-white lead, used as a pigment. see white lead, under white.
-a cosmetic containing white lead.
-the native carbonate of lead.

cerused
-washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face.

cerusite
-alt. of cerussite

cerussite
-native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.

cervantite
-see under antimony.

cervelat
-an ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.

cervical
-of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae.

cervices
-of cervix

cervicide
-the act of killing deer; deer
-slaying.

cervine
-of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family cervidae.

cervix
-the neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. see illust. of bird.

cervixes
-of cervix

cervus
-a genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species.

ceryl
-a radical, c27h55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from chinese wax, beeswax, etc.

cesarean
-alt. of cesarian

cesarian
-same as caesarean, caesarian.

cesarism
-see caesarism.

cespitine
-an oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.

cespititious
-same as cespitious.

cespitose
-having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.

cespitous
-pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy.

cess
-a rate or tax.
-bound; measure.
-to rate; to tax; to assess.
-to cease; to neglect.

cessant
-inactive; dormant

cessation
-a ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.

cessavit
-a writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.

cessed
-of cess

cesser
-a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.

cessible
-giving way; yielding.

cessing
-of cess

cession
-a yielding to physical force.
-concession; compliance.
-a yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.
-the giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
-the voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.

cessionary
-having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt.

cessment
-an assessment or tax.

cessor
-one who neglects, for two years, to perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. see cessavit.
-an assessor.

cesspipe
-a pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool.

cesspool
-a cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.

cest
-a woman's girdle; a cestus.

cestode
-of or pertaining to the cestoidea.
-one of the cestoidea.

cestoid
-of or pertaining to the cestoidea.
-one of the cestoidea.

cestoidea
-a class of parasitic worms (platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. the body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. they have neither mouth nor intestine. see tapeworm.

cestoldean
-one of the cestoidea.

cestraciont
-a shark of the genus cestracion, and of related genera. the posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. most of the species are extinct. the port jackson shark and a similar one found in california are living examples.
-pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus cestracion.

cestui
-he; the one.

cestus
-a girdle; particularly that of aphrodite (or venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.
-a genus of ctenophora. the typical species (cestus veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.
-a covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.

cestuy
-alt. of cestui

cesura
-see caesura.

cesural
-see caesural.

cetacea
-an order of marine mammals, including the whales. like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. the anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. there are two living suborders:

cetacean
-one of the cetacea.

cetaceous
-of or pertaining to the cetacea.

cete
-one of the cetacea, or collectively, the cetacea.

cetene
-an oily hydrocarbon, c16h32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.

ceterach
-a species of fern with fronds (asplenium ceterach).

cetewale
-same as zedoary.

cetic
-of or pertaining to a whale.

cetin
-a white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.

cetological
-of or pertaining to cetology.

cetologist
-one versed in cetology.

cetology
-the description or natural history of cetaceous animals.

cetraric
-pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, iceland moss (cetaria islandica).

cetrarin
-a white substance extracted from the lichen, iceland moss (cetraria islandica). it consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance.

cetyl
-a radical, c16h33, not yet isolated, but supposed to exist in a series of compounds homologous with the ethyl compounds, and derived from spermaceti.

cetylic
-of, pertaining to, or derived from, spermaceti.

ceylanite
-a dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. it is also called pleonaste.

ceylonese
-of or pertaining to ceylon.
-a native or natives of ceylon.