centricity (sentrisiti)

[ IMG:content-0029.png:[graphic] of administrative power in the central government at the expense of local self-government. The Constitution raises a powerful barrier against the tide of centralization which threatens to ingulf our liber New Princeton Rev., II. 137. ties. Also spelled centralisation . centralize (sen'tral-īz), v. t.; pret. and pp. cen tralized, ppr. centralizing. [ tional center: generally applied to the proce of transferring administration to the central government. Also spelled centralise. The first task of a modern despot is to centralise to the highest point, to bring every department of thought and action under a system of police regulation, and, above all, to impose his shackling tyranny upon the human mind. Lecky , Europ. Morals, I. 475. centralized (sen'tral-izd), p. a. [Pp. of central ize, v.] Centered in one point or on the authority of one person, party, etc.; vested in a central authority. Also spelled centralised. Spain is not, and never has been, one of those central ised countries in which the capture of the capital implies the subjugation of the nation. Lecky , Eng. in 18th Cent., i. Bad as the old poor-law was in many of its aspects, it gave a far greater freedom to those who had to work its provisions than the present centralized system allows. N. and Q., 6th ser., X. 260. II. n. A fish of the subfamily Centrarchina . centrarchoid (sen-trär'koid), a. and n. I. a. Centrarchida. n. fish belonging to or resembling the Centrarchus (sen-trärkus), n. [NL., Gr. κέντρον, spine, + ἀρχός , rectum (anus).] A genus of percoideous fishes, typical of the family Centrarchida, having many spines in the anal fin, whence the name. centrationt (sen-tra's hon), n. [L. as if *cen tratio ( n- ), centrum , center: see center1 .] Tendency toward the center. Dr. H. More. minated by a flower-bud, which the first to open, the lower or outer ones following in succe ion. The elder and valerian furnish examples. Centrifugal a name section of Grenne's The wheel rotates in the direction of the arrow, and delivers the given to gay machines for rais ing water, ventilating mines, drying yarn, clothes, sugar, etc. In centrifu gal drying-machines the material is water upward into the placed in a cylinder of wire gauze, the rapid rotation of which causes the eduction-pipe, L. water (or in the case of sugar the mola es) to fly off by centrifugal action. - Centrifugal pump, a rotary pump of a fan-wheel operating directly upon the ma water. τρον, center, + ἄξων, axis, + -ial. ] Having a axial line; having the center the body definable by a line: the correlative of monaxo nial and stauraxonial. Encyc. Brit. centrel, n. and v. See center1. centre2, n. See center2, centreityt (sen-trē'i-ti), n. [L. centrum, center, + -e-ity.] The state of being a center, as of attraction or action, or of being situated in a center; centrality. In everything compost, Each part of th' e ence its centreity Keeps to itself; it shrinks not to a nullity. Dr. H. More, Psych a than asia, III. ii. 20. centric (sen'trik), a . and n . [=Sp. It. centrico , κεντρικός , of or from the center, κέντρον , center: see center1 , and cf. central.] I. a. 1. Central; basic; fundamental. [Rare.] Centrifugal Pump, exterior view. There are numerous devices for the application of this principle. Centrifugal radicle, in bot., an embryonic radicle turned away from the center of the seed. - Centrifugal sugar, a trade-name for sugar prepared in a centrifugal machine. IMG:content-0030.png:[blocks in formation]