Panpipe (panpip)

Same as Pan's pipes (which see, under pipel ). At the end of the lime-tree avenue is a broken-nosed damp Faun with a marble panpipe , who pipes to the spirit ditties which I believe never had any tune. Thackeray, New comes, xlvii. Slavonic .] Panslavic. pansophical (pan-sof'i-kal), a. [ Latin It were to be wished, indeed, that it were done into for the humbling of many conceited enthusiWorthington, To Hartlib, p. 231. ( Latham .) pansophy (pan'sō-fi), n . [F. pansophie = Pg. pansophia , πᾶς ( παν- ), all, + σοφός , wise.] Universal wisdom or knowledge. [Rare.] asts and pansophical pretenders. The French philosophers affect.. a sort of pansophy or universality of command over the opinions of men, which can only be supported by the arts of deception. Booth by , On Burke, p. 265. ( Latham .) panspermatism (pan-sperm a-tizm), n. [ σπέρμα ( σπέρματ- ), seed, + -ism . ] The doctrine that the atmosphere is full of invisible germs of infusorial and other animal cules. The term is especially applied to the doctrine fe the doctrines and hold to the polity common to the various Presbyterian bodies: as, a Pan - Presbyterian Council. General councils of the "Alliance of the Reformed Churches throughout the world holding the Presbyterian system" were held at Edinburgh in 1877, at Philadelphia in 1880, at Belfast, Ireland, in 1884, and at London in 1888.