lateritious

[Lat. later it i us, from later (gen it, later is )=a brick.] Like bricks; of the color lateritious-sediment, s. Pathol.: An epithet applied to the brick dust persons suffering from fever. ( Dunglison.) 2. That which is lateral. lăt-er-al-ly, adv. [Eng. lateral; -ly.] In a lat teral manner, direction, or position; on or from the side; sideways. Lat-er-an, s. [Named after Plautius Later an us , on the site of whose house the church is built, and who was put to death by Nero.] The principal church of Rome, dedicated to St. John Later an us, and built originally by Const an tine the Great. It is the episcopal church of the pope. IMG:content-0388.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The Ninth General Council, and the first held in the West, under Calixtus II., in 1123. More than 300 bishops and 600 abbots attended. Its object was to end the strife on Investiture between the Emperor Henry V. and the See of Rome. 2. The Second Later an (Tenth General) Council was held in 1139. Innocent II. presided over more than 1,000 prelates. Anacletus II. was declared an anti-pope, Roger of Sicily, his champion, excommunicated, and silence imposed on Arnold of Brescia. 3. The Third Later an (Eleventh General) Council, 1179, under Alexander III., decreed the nece ity of a majority of two-thirds to secure the election of a pope. 4. The Fourth Later an (Twelfth General) Council surpa ed in importance all those previously held.