lati sternal

[Lat. lat us = broad, wide; sternum=the sternum (q.v.), and Eng. suff. -al.] connected with the Latin Church (q. v.). "The Easterns deliberated among themselves without the presence of any Latin bishops." -Vaughan: Year of Preparation, p. 113. B. As substantive: 1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman. 2. The language of the ancient Romans. 3. A member of one of the Latin races. 4. The members, and especially the clergy, of the Latin Church. "The Oriental Bishops profe ed themselves satisfied by the answers the Latins gave to their objections."Vaughan: Year of Preparation, p. 60. 5. A school-exercise, consisting in the rendering or translation of English into Latin. "In learning farther his syntax is, he shall not use the common order in schools for making of Latins ."-Ascham: Scholemaster . istics of the anthropoid apes.