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adv. In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Of use in curing the itch. -- n. An antipsoric remedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Aspersoria [ LL. See Asperse. ] 1. The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. assessorial, fr. L. assessor. ] Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + Gr. &unr_; the itch. ] (Med.) That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. bassorine. ] (Chem.) A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Full of censure; censorious. [ 1913 Webster ]

The censorial declamation of Juvenal. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Censorial. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. censorius pertaining to the censor. See Censor. ] 1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.

Syn. -- Fault-finding; carping; caviling; captious; severe; condemnatory; hypercritical.

-- Cen*so"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Cen*so"ri*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to compromise. [ R. ] Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a compulsory manner; by force or constraint. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) (a) Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. (b) Of or pertaining to the Cursores. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a running or hasty manner; carelessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To turn away from the east; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings. [ R. ] Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to cause (a person) to lose one's sense of direction; to cause to lose one's bearings or way; as, the tourist was disoriented by the winding and narrow streets. [ PJC ]

3. (Psychiatry) to cause one to lose one's sense of time or place, or of one's own personal identity. [ PJC ]

4. to confuse (a person) by changing or removing something which has served as a standard or guide to action; as, workers were rendered unemployed and disoriented by the rapid changes in the markets. [ PJC ]

v. t. To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having lost one's bearings physically or mentally. I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway;the anesthetic left her completely disoriented
Syn. -- confused, lost. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. socially disoriented; withdrawn from social interactions.
Syn. -- alienated, anomic. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. causing disorientation: causing confusion of directions. Also See: unoriented. Antonym: orienting [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) See Fossores. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fossor a digger. ] Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. gressus, p. p. of gradi to step, go. ] (Zool.) Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.

‖n. pl. [ NL.; -- so called because found in infusions which are left exposed to the air for a time. See Infuse. ] (Zool.) One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size. Formerly, the term was applied to any microbe found in infusions of decaying organic material, but the term is now applied more specifically to one of the classes of the phylum Ciliophora, of ciliated protozoans. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ (From 1913 dictionary): They are found in all seas, lakes, ponds, and streams, as well as in infusions of organic matter exposed to the air. They are distinguished by having vibrating lashes or cilia, with which they obtain their food and swim about. They are devided into the orders Flagellata, Ciliata, and Tentaculifera. See these words in the Vocabulary. Formely the term Infusoria was applied to all microscopic organisms found in water, including many minute plants, belonging to the diatoms, as well as minute animals belonging to various classes, as the Rotifera, which are worms; and the Rhizopoda, which constitute a distinct class of Protozoa. Fossil Infusoria are mostly the siliceous shells of diatoms; sometimes they are siliceous skeletons of Radiolaria, or the calcareous shells of Foraminifera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Belonging to the Infusoria; composed of, or containing, Infusoria; as, infusorial earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Infusorial earth (Geol.), a deposit of fine, usually white, siliceous material, composed mainly of the shells of the microscopic plants called diatoms; also called diatomaceous earth, kieselguhr, and diatomite. It is used in polishing powder, and in the manufacture of dynamite. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Infusoria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) 1. Pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging or pertaining to the Insessores. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Intercessory. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. lusorius. See Illusory. ] Used in play; sportive; playful. [ Obs. ] Bp. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the writers of the Masora. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of tropical usually epiphytic ferns, found from Africa to Asia, and from Polynesia to Australia.
Syn. -- genus Microsorium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Pedagogy) A system of training and instruction, primarily for use with normal children aged from three to six years, devised by Dr. Maria Montessori while teaching in the “Houses of Childhood” (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909. The fundamental aim is to create self-motivation for education, and the leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of reading and writing skills, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on vision, touch, perception of movement, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of “didactic apparatus, ” which is declared to be “auto-regulative.” Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the work of the French-American physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812-80). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ ‖ } n.; pl. L. -soria E. -sories [ NL. ostensorium: cf. F. ostensoir. See Ostensible. ] (R. C. Ch.) Same as Monstrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a prelusory way. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. professorius: cf. F. professorial. ] Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The character, manners, or habits of a professor. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Professoriate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A professorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; psora. ] (Med.) (a) The state of being affected with psora. [ Obs. ] (b) A cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. psoricus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. psorique. ] (Med.) Of or pertaining to psora. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Responsory; antiphonal. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.[ L. ridere, risum, to laugh. ] Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) (a) Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot. (b) Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust. under Aves. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scansorial tail (Zool.), a tail in which the feathers are stiff and sharp at the tip, as in the woodpeckers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. sensorial. See Sensorium. ] Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Sensoriums L. Sensoria [ L., fr. sentire, sensum, to discern or perceive by the senses. ] (Physiol.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations. [ 1913 Webster ]