saintlike

[ Eng.saint; -like.] 1. Like or resembling a saint; saintly, holy. 2. Becoming or befitting a saint. *saint-li-ly, adv . (English saintly ; -ly .] In a saintly manner. (Poe: Rationale of Verse .) saint-li-ne , s . (English saintly ; -ne .] The quality or state of being saintly. saint-ly, a. [English saint; -ly.] Like a saint; becoming or befitting a saint; saintlike. "Men of orthodox faith and saintly life."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xi. tsaint-ol-o-gist, s . [Eng. saint , and Gr. logos = a word, a discourse.] One who writes or is versed in the lives or history of saints; a hagiologist. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. saintship saint'-ship, s. [Eng. saint; -ship.] The character or qualities of a saint; saintly character or condition. säir, a. [SORE.] ( Scotch.) säir, v. t. [SERVE.] ( Scotch.) säir-ing, säir-In', s . [SAIR, v .] As much as satisfies or serves the turn; enough. ( Scotch .) saith (sěth), 3d pers. sing. pres. indic. of SAY, v . saithe, s. [SEETHE.] Sai-va, s . [SIVA.] Hinduism: A follower of Siva, the third of the Hindu Triad; spec., a monastic devotee of the god. H. H. Wilson ( Religious Sects of the Hindus , 1862, p. 32) divides these devotees into nine orders: Dandis and Dasnamis, Jogis, Jan gamas, Par am a hansas, Urdhabahus, Akas Mukhis and Nakhis, Gudaras, Rukharas, Sukharas and Ukharas, Kara Lingis, Sannyasis, . Sai-va-vite, a. & s. [Sansc., . Saiva ; v connective, and Eng. suff. -ite .] A. As adj .: Of or belonging to Siva or his worshipers. B. As subst.: A Saiva (q. v.). sa-jene, sa-ģēne (1), s . (Ru .) A Ru ian measure of length, equal to 1'167 English fathoms, or about seven English feet. sa-jou (Jas zh), subst. [For etym. and def. see extract.] "These [the genus Cebus] are the 'little masters of the woods, according to Azara, and should be called by aie (the 'C' is soft), which has been altered to the extraordinary talent which the French have of confounding spelling and sounds in other languages. Buffon divides the monkeys noticed above [the genera Ateles, Lagothrix, and Cebus] into Sapajous and Sagoins , the larger kinds belonging to the first, and those about to be noticed [Cebus] to the last. He modified, he says, the words Cay on as on and Cagoni , their C being pronounced as S. But Azara says that the real words are Caigonazon and Cai, they being pronounced as written, and the first means Great Cai, and the last Cai or Cay, simply Monkey. Sajous is a derivative from Cagoni, and animals properly included by it constitute the genus Cebus, but to add to the confusion Mr. Wallace calls them Sapajous ."-Prof. M. Duncan, in Ca ell's Nat . Hist ., i. 178, 179. sā-ką, s. [Native name (?).] Bot .: Copaifera pubiflora and C. bract eat a , which yield timber of great toughne . They grow in Demerara. sāke, subst . [A. S. sacu strife, dispute, crime, accusation; cogn. with Dutch zaac matter, case, cause, busine , affair; Icel. sök a charge, guilt, crime; Dan. sag; Sw.sak; Ger.sac he ; Goth.sakan =to contend, to rebuke.] 1. Final cause, end, purpose; purpose or desire of obtaining; as, to fight for the sake of freedom. 2. Account, reason, cause, interest; regard to any person or thing. (1) The plural is used in such phrases as, For your sakes , For their sakes . (2) The sign of the genitive is often omitted(a) When the word preceding sake ends in a sibilant; as, for goodne sake , for conscience sake , . *(b) When the word ends in other letters; as, for fashion sake , for safety sake , . *3. A fault, a crime, a dispute. [SACKLESS.] "For desert of sum sake." E. Eng. Allit. Poems, iii. 84. Sake is only used in such phrases as are given above, and is always preceded by for.