monistic (monistik)

[ Idealism is monistic in its whole conception of the uni 41. A backboard. Posterity will ask What was a monitor in George's days. A monitor is wood-plank shaven thin; We wear it at our backs, But, thus admonish'd, we can walk erect. Couper, Task, ii. 580. it should in consistency call itself a "no-substance" theory instead. Bibliotheca Sacra, XLV. 103. The opponents of the doctrine of evolution are very fond of branding the monistic philosophy grounded upon it as "materialism," by confusing philosophical materialism with the wholly different and censurable moral materialism. Strictly, however, our monism might, as accurately or as inaccurately, be called spiritualism as materialism. The real materialistic philosophy a erts that the vital phenomena of motion, like all other phenomena of motion, are effects or products of matter. The other, opposite extreme, spiritualistic philosophy, a erts, on the contrary, that matter is the product of motive force, and that all ma torida, so called because one of the species was fabled to admonish man of the presence of the crocodile of the Nile. Also called Varanus. 6. A lizard of the genus Monitor or family Mo nitorida. See cut under Hydros a urus.-7. A heavily armored iron-clad steam-ve el with a very low free-board, of a type invented by Eric on, carrying on deck one or more revolving turrets, each containing one or more great guns, and designed to combine the maximum IMG:content-0877.png:[blocks in formation] type, which was built during the American civil war, and in 1862 arrested the destructive course of the Confederate iron-clad ram Merrimac. I now submit for your approbation a name for the floating battery at Green Point. The impregnable and aggre ive character of this structure will admonish the leaders of the Southern Rebellion that the batteries on the banks of their rivers will no longer present barriers to the entrance of the Union forces. The iron-clad intruder will thus prove a severe monitor to those leaders. "Downing Street" will hardly view with indifference this last "Yankee notion," this monitor. On these and many similar grounds I propose to name the new battery Monitor. Eric on, to A ist. Sec. of Navy, Jan. 20, 1862. 8. A raised part of a roof, usually fitted with openings for light and ventilation, as in a pas IMG:content-0878.jpg:[blocks in formation] = = monk (mungk), n. [Formerly als also munk, monck, munck; diffusion of Christianity were the E enes and Therapeutæ (which see). The ordinary Christian life of the first three centuries, even when not celibate, was largely ascetic and in communities. Christian monasticism in a definite form originated in Upper Egypt in the third or fourth century (perhaps with St. Anthony; according to other accounts it is traced to the ascetic Paul, about A. D. 250). The first monks were anchorites, living in solitude. The collection of anchorites in a monastery (laura or cœnobium) is ascribed to Pachomius, in the fourth century. The institution spread rapidly, and was greatly helped in the West by the establishment of the Benedictine order in the sixth century. Various developments of the be found in the middle ages, as the senger-car or omnibus. See monitor- roof -military orders, friars (often distinguished from monks Teguexin monitor. See Ameivida.