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Papist :: Papist (n.) A Roman catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents.

Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia..

Imparisyllabic :: Imparisyllabic (a.) Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis..

Wiggery :: Wiggery (n.) Any cover or screen, as red-tapism..

Papism :: Papism (n.) Popery; -- an offensive term.

Sinapis :: Sinapis (n.) A disused generic name for mustard; -- now called Brassica.

Serapis :: Serapis (n.) An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome..

Pontifician :: Pontifician (n.) One who adheres to the pope or papacy; a papist.

Priapism :: Priapism (n.) More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire..

Capistrate :: Capistrate (a.) Hooded; cowled.

Attrahent :: Attrahent (n.) A substance which, by irritating the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism..

Honeybee :: Honeybee (n.) Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or dr

Papistry :: Papistry (n.) The doctrine and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery.

Red-tapist :: Red-tapist (n.) One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.

Mustard :: Mustard (n.) The name of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica (formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (B. alba), black mustard (B. Nigra), wild mustard or charlock (B. Sinapistrum)..

Azure :: Azure (n.) The lapis lazuli.

Red-tapism :: Red-tapism (n.) Strict adherence to official formalities.

Apis :: Apis (n.) A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee..

Sinapisin :: Sinapisin (n.) A substance extracted from mustard seed and probably identical with sinalbin.

Apishly :: Apishly (adv.) In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.

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