Nitrian (nitrian)

[ Those fierce bands of Nitrian and Syrian ascetics who, reared in the narrowest of schools, treated any divergence from their own standard of opinion as a crime which they were entitled to punish in their own riotous fashion. Encyc. Brit ., XVI. 701. nitriary (nitri-ā-ri), n.; pl. nitriaries (-riz). [Irreg. for * nitrary, nitric (nī'trik), a. [= F.nitrique =Sp. nítrico = Pg. nitrico, finest dyes; in metallurgy and a aying; also in medicine, in a diluted state, as a tonic, and in affections of the alimentary tract and of the liver; and in concentrated form as a caustic. In the arts it is known by the name of aqua IMG:content-1402.png:[blocks in formation]