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Ionic :: Ionic (a.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital..

Anna :: Anna (n.) An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents..

Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (a.) Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.

Sacramentarian :: Sacramentarian (n.) A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.

Seventeenth :: Seventeenth (a.) Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.

Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt..

Reformer :: Reformer (n.) One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin..

Horse-chestnut :: Horse-chestnut (n.) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes..

Allecret :: Allecret (n.) A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss..

Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (n.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.

Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat

Seventeenth :: Seventeenth (n.) The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.

Roulade :: Roulade (n.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios..

Cogware :: Cogware (n.) A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century..

Composite :: Composite (v. t.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital..

Reformation :: Reformation (n.) Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches..

Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins..

Virginal :: Virginal (n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals..

Ounce :: Ounce (n.) A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing 437/ grains..

Nail :: Nail (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard..

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