pelargel

[Eng. pelarg ( onic ); suff. -yl.] Chemistry: CH17O. The hypothetical radicle.of pelargonic acid. pelargyl-chloride, s. Chem.: C9H17OCI. A colorle liquid, heavier than water, obtained by the action of phosphorus pent a chloride on pelargonic acid. It boils at 220, has a suffocating odor, and gives off dense fumes on exposure to the air. Pě-lăşģī, s . pl . [PELASGIAN, B.] Pě-lăş-gi-an, a. & s. [Lat. Pelasgus Pelasgian; Pelasgi = the Pelasgians.] A. As adj .: Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians or Pelasgi; Pelasgic. B. As subst.: One of an ancient and widely diffused prehistoric tribe which was the common parent of the Greeks and of the earliest civilized inhabitants of Italy. Most authors agree in representing Arcadia as one of their principal seats, where they long remained undisturbed; but the origin of this people is lost in myth. Traces of them are found in Asia Minor and Italy. The term Pelasgi was used by the cla ic poets for the Greeks in general. Pě-lăş-gic, a . [PELASGIAN.] Of or pertaining to the Pelasgi; Pelasgian. "The Pelasgic tribes spoke a language of the Aryan family, allied to the Sanscrit, but obtained their letters from the Phoenicians, and long wrote them from right to. left, as in the land from whence they were adopted."Knight: Dict. of Mechanics , s. v. Pen. Pelasgic-architecture, Pelasgic-buildings, s . posterity. 7. That neither death nor sin pa ed upon all men by the fall of Adam. His views were shared by an a ociate of his, another monk, Celestius, apparently an Irish man. Celestius was condemned for heresy in 412 by the Council of Carthage, and in 415 by a synod at Rome, and was banished by the emperor. He was again condemned by a synod at Rome in 430, and by the Council of Ephesus in 431. The controversy went on in a languishing manner till the seventh century, [SEMI PELAGIAN.] Pe-la-gi-an-işm, s. [Eng. Pelagian , s.; -ism .] The doctrines or teaching of Pelagius or the Pelagians. pě-lăgic, a . [Latin pelagus ; Gr. pelagos the sea, the ocean.] Of or pertaining to the ocean; marine; spec if., in zoology, applied to animals which inhabit the open ocean. pelagic-fishes, s. pl. Ichthy.: Fishes which inhabit the surface and uppermost strata of the open ocean, which approach the shores only accidentally, or occasionally (in search of prey), or periodically (for the purpose of spawning). All pelagic-fishes may be referred to one of the following orders: Chondropterygii, Acanthopterygii, Physostomi, Lophobranch i i, Plectognath i. (Günther.)