station, stacion

[Fr. station, from Lat. stationem, acc us. of statio a standing still, from status, pa. par. of sto =to stand; Sp. estacion; Ital. stazione.] I. Ordinary Language : 3838 4. Ship build.: A room-and-space staff (q. v.). statistics 2. Remaining in the same condition or state; time of an observation. 6. Zoology and Botany: (1) The peculiar nature of the locality where any plant grows or any animal lives. In the case of plants, it has reference to climate, soil, humidity, light, and elevation above the sea; in that of animals, it has reference chiefly to food, climate, and elevation. Thus some animals feed only on certain plants, and cannot exist where they are absent. The station differs from the habitation or habitat of the plant or animal, which simply means the country of which it is a native. (Lyell: Princ. of Geol., ch. xxxviii., xlii.) (2) A building, generally on the sea-coast, fitted with all appliances for the examination of the animals of the adjacent bay.gulf, .; as, the Grant on station , the Neapolitan station , . (1) Military station : A place where troops are regularly kept in garrison. (2) Naval station: A safe and commodious shel ter or harbor for the navy or mercantile marine of a nation, provided with a dock and all other requisites for the repair of ships. (3) Stations of the Cro : Eccles. & Church Hist .: A popular devotion in the Roman Church, consisting of visits, either alone or in proce ion, to a series of pictures or images, each corresponding to some particular ing nor getting worse; standing still. "Though the wealth of a country should be very great, yet if it has been long stationary , we must not expect to find the wages of labor very high in it."- Smith : Wealth of Nations , bk. i., ch. viii. II. Astron . ( of a planet ): Not changing its relative place in the heavens for some days. This stage occurs at the beginning and ending of the planet's retrogradation. *B. As subst.: A person or thing which remains or continues in the same place. "Then they are stationaries in their houses, which be in the middle points of the latitudes, which they call ecliptics."-P. Holland : Pliny , bk. ii., ch. xvi. stationary-diseases, s. pl. Pathol.: Certain diseases which depend upon a particular state of the atmosphere, and which, after prevailing for a certain number of years, give way to others. ( Dunglison .) IMG:content-0226.png:[blocks in formation] fixed, as distinguished from a locomotive or port- able engine; a fixed engine for drawing carriages on a railway, by means of a rope extending from the station of the engine along the line. stā-tion-er, s . [Eng. station ; -er . ] devoutly thereon. The stations are to be found in nearly every church, and on the continent of Europe they are frequently erected in the open air. The devotion began in the Francis can order, the official guardians of the Holy Places of the Latins in Jerusalem, and is intended to be a pilgrimage in spirit to the scene of the Savior's sufferings and death. Many indulgences are annexed to the Stations of the Cro . When the stations are made in *1. The act or manner of standing; attitude, post proce ion, a verse of the Stabat Mater (q. v.) is ure, pose. "In station like the herald Mercury." sung as the people pa from one station to another. Called also, Way of the Cro . There are fourteen stations: Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 4. *2. A state or condition of standing or rest; a standing. "His motion and her station are as one." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , iii. 3. 3. The spot or place where a person or thing stands, especially the spot or place where a person habitually stands or is posted to remain for a time; a post a igned. "Take up some other station ." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , iv. 5. *4. Situation, position. "The fig and date, why love they to remain In middle station , and an even plain?" Prior : Solomon , i. 68. 5. Condition of life; social position; rank, state, status. "And yet my love without ambition grew, I knew thy state, my station." Byron: Lament of Ta 0, V. 6. Employment, occupation, busine ; sphere or department of duty. "We acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following."Nelson. (Todd.) II. Technically : 1. Ecclesiology and Church History: (1) A name given to the fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. In the Roman Church these were fasts of devotion, not of precept, and the Wednesday fast died out, while that on Friday became obligatory, about the end of the ninth century. (2) A church in which a proce ion of the clergy halts on stated days to say any stated prayers. (3) A stopping-place in a monastic proce ion. These are usually three: Before, ( a ) the dormitory; (b) the refectory, and (c) the west door of the church. (4) Any one of the series of stopping-places in the devotion of the Stations of the Cro . (5) ( In Ireland ); (See extract). "A station in this sense differs from a station made to any peculiar spot remarkable for local sanctity here, it simply means the coming of the parish priest and his curate to some house in the townland, on a day publicly announced from the altar for that purpose, on the preceding Sabbath. This is done to give those who live within the district in which the station is held an opportunity of coming to their duty, as frequenting the ord i. nance of confe ion is emphatically called."-Car let on: Tales of Irish Peasantry; The Station . 2. Police : A place or building where the police force of any district has its headquarters; a district or branch police-office. 3. Railway : A building or buildings erected for the reception and accommodation of pa engers and freight intended to be conveyed by railway; a place at which railway trains regularly stop for the set ting down or taking up of pa engers or freight. [DEPOT.] 1. Christ condemned by Pilate; 2. Christ receives His cro ; 3. His first fall; 4. His meeting with His mother; 5. The bearing of the cro by Simon of Cyrene; 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus with a handkerchief; 7. His second fall; 8. His words to the women of Jerusalem: "Weep not for Me," .; 9. His third fall; 10. He is death of Jesus; 18. The taking down from the cro ; 14. stripped of His garments; 11. The crucifixion; 12. The The burial. IMG:content-0227.png:[blocks in formation] Survey.: An instrument for taking angles. station, v . t . [STATION, 8.] To place, set, or post in or at a certain station; to a ign a station, post, or position to; to appoint to the occupation of a post, place, or office. "This youth had station'd many a warlike band Of horse and foot." Hoole: Orlando Furioso, xxiii. *stā-tion-al, a. [Eng. station , s.; -al.] Of or pertaining to a station. stā-tion-ar-i-ne , subst. [Eng. stationary: -ne .] The quality or state of being stationary; fixity