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Plebeian :: Plebeian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people..

Ceremonial :: Ceremonial (n.) The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions..

Coromandel :: Coromandel (n.) The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal..

Cognomen :: Cognomen (n.) The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family..

Asiarch :: Asiarch (n.) One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites..

Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe..

Chiromancer :: Chiromancer (n.) One who practices chiromancy.

Romish :: Romish (a.) Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic Church; -- frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies..

Recumbent :: Recumbent (a.) Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle..

Bibliolatry :: Bibliolatry (n.) Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures..

Equites :: Equites (n. pl) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

Comitia :: Comitia (n. pl.) A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws.

Thunderer :: Thunderer (n.) One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter..

Catoptromancy :: Catoptromancy (n.) A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable..

Vitruvian :: Vitruvian (a.) Of or pertaining to Vitruvius, an ancient Roman architect..

Interlude :: Interlude (n.) A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama..

Papacy :: Papacy (n.) The Roman Catholic religion; -- commonly used by the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.

Romanticist :: Romanticist (n.) One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.

Orchestra :: Orchestra (n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians..

Speculum :: Speculum (n.) A mirror, or looking-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in Greek and Roman archaeology..

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