typolite

[ Gr.typos =a mark, and lithos = a stone.] An old name for a stone or fo il which has on it impre ions or figures resembling plants or animals. ty-pol-o-gỹ, subst. [Greek typos =a type; suff. 1. A discourse on types, especially those of Scrip -ology . ture. 2. The doctrine of types. A department of theology which investigates Scripture types, and the principles applicable to their interpretation. It starts from the position that the leading truths of revealed religion were the same under the Patriarchal, the Jewish and the Christian dispensations. These truths were, however, revealed to the earlier worshipers more or le obscurely, being expre ed by symbols, instead of stated directly in words. Each type employed had a twofold meaning and purpose it was a symbol of some religious truth and predictive of the antitype, Christ. [SACRIFICE, II. 4.] +ty-po-ther-I-ŭm, s. [Greek typos =a type, and therion a wild beast.] Palæont .: Another name for the genus Me so the rium (q. v.). taining to or characteristic of a tyrant; Sp. tiranico; Ital. tirannico.] 1. Pertaining to or characteristic of a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; despotic, cruel, arbitrary. "They blame Lewes the xi. for bringing the administration royall of Fraunce, from the law full and regulate raigne, to the absolute and tyrannical power and gouernment."-Smith: Commonwealth, bk. i., ch. vii. 2. Acting like a tyrant; arbitrary, cruel, despotic, imperious. "[Tyrant] by the antient Greeks, was applied to all ii., ch. xii. kings, as well the just and merciful, as the cruel, and whom we now call tyrannical."-Potter: Antiquities , bk. ty-răn-nic-al-ly, adv . [Eng. tyrannical ; -ly .] In a tyrannical, despotic, cruel, or arbitrary manner; like a tyrant; with unjust or arbitrary exercise of power. "Brutus being chosen Consul of Rome chased out of the city Tarquinius Superb us, who reigned tyrannically."-P. Holland : Plutarch , p. 744. ty-răn nic-al-ne , subst . [Eng. tyrannical; -ne .] The quality or state of being tyrannical; tyrannical disposition or practice. ty-răn-ni-çi-dal, adj . [Eng. tyrannicid( e ) ; al .] Pertaining or relating to tyrannicide, or to one who kills a tyrant. "Its blo om sheathed the sheer tyrannicidal sword." A. C. Swinburne: Athens.