simarubeæ

pl. [Mod. Lat. simarub ( a ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ea.] Bot.: The typical tribe of Simaruba cee (q. v.). sim-blot, s. [Fr.] The harne of a weaver's draw-loom. Sim-e-on-ites, s. pl . [See def.] Church Hist.: A name given in England to the followers of the Rev. Charles Simeon (1758-1836), Vice-provost of King's College, and Vicar of Trinity Church, Cambridge. He was distinguished for an impa ioned evangelicalism in language, sentiment, and doctrine that at first roused bitter opposition, but his influence increased, and from about 1793 he gathered round him a number of men, chiefly undergraduates, whom he sought to indoctrinate with his opinions, which he also endeavored to perpetuate by establishing the Simeon Trust, for the purchase of cures of souls to which men holding evangelical views were to be appointed.