ceremoniality (sere monial it i)

[ Jer. Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, i. 287. ceremonially (ser-e-mō'ni-al-i), adv. In a ceremonial manner; as regards prescribed or recognized rites and ceremonies: as, a person cere The monially unclean; an act.ceremonially unlawful. ceremonial ne (ser-e-mon i-al-nes), n. quality of being ceremonial. ceremonious (ser-ē-mō'ni-us), a. [= F. céré monieux = Sp. Pg. It. ceremonioso, It [lead] were too gro To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave. His honourable head Seal'd up in salves and cerecloths , like a packet, And so sent over to an hospital. Fletcher, Mad Lover, i. 1. IMG:content-0067.png:[blocks in formation] mollusks. [Rare.] The typical pedal ganglia are joined to the cerebropleurovisceral ganglia by connectives. Encyc. Brit ., XVI. 693. cere bro rachidian (ser"ē-brō-rā-kid'i-an), a. [ cerebrose, cerebrous (ser'ē-bros, -brus), a. [= Sp. It. cerebroso, cere bro sensorial (sere-bro-sen-sō'ri-al), a. [ Cered pokets, sal peter, vitriole. Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 255. 2. In ornith, having a cere; cerate. cerement (ser'ment), n. [F. cirement (Cotgrave), a waxing, a dre ing or covering with wax, Let me not burst in ignorance! but tell, Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements ! Shak., Hamlet, i. 4. A cerement from the grave. Mrs. Browning. 2. The under-cover of an altar-slab. mony and -ous.] 11. Consisting of or relating to outward forms and rites; conformable to prescribed ceremony. [In this sense ceremo nial is now used.] God was.. of his worship. 2. Full of ceremony or formality; marked by solemnity of manner or method. tender of the shell and ceremonious part South. IMG:content-0068.png:[blocks in formation] In her own circle, it was regarded as by no means improper for kinsfolk to visit one another without invitation, or preliminary and ceremonious warning. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, iv. Very reverend and godly he (Winthrop] truly was, and a respect not merely ceremonious , but personal, a respect that savors of love, shows itself in the letters addre ed to him. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 246. 4. Observant of conventional forms; fond of using ceremony; punctilious as to outward observances and ceremonies. You are too sensele -obstinate, my lord, Too ceremonious and traditional. On all who in the worship persevere Of spirit and truth; the rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward rites and specious forms Religion satisfied. Milton , P. L., xii. 534. Nay, my lords, ceremony was but dev is'd at first To set a glo on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodne , sorry ere 'tis shown; 2. [l. c.] Any plant of the genus Cereus .-3. In zoöl . , a genus of sea-anemones, of the fam- ily Actiniida . cerevis (ser'ē-vis), n. [ cervisia . cerfoilt, n. See chervil . H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 140. Add is on . With the [Hebrews'] advance from the pre-pastoral state, cerge, serge2 (sėrj), n . there was probably son some divergence from their original observances of burial and sacrifice. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 138. ceremony (ser'ē-mō-ni), n.; pl. ceremonies (-niz). [ ceremonie , F. cérémo- nie = Pr. ceremonia, cerimonia = Sp. Pg. cere- monia = It. ceremonia , cerimonia, cirimonia , cærimonia or cæremonia , later often cerimonia , sacredne , reverence, a sacred rite; perhaps akin to Skt. karman , action, work, kar , do; ef. L. creare , create, etc.: see create and Ceres .] 1. A religious observance; a solemn rite. Bring her up to th' high altar, that she may The sacred ceremonies there partake. IMG:content-0069.png:[blocks in formation] adj., of wax, cera , wax: see cereous and cere .] In the Rom. Cath. Ch., a large wax candle burned before the altar. Cerial (sē'ri-ä), n. [NL., appar. irreg. appar. irreg. κέρας , horn.] 1. A genus of dipterous insects, of the family Syrphid a , having elongate anten- ne with a terminal style.-2. [l. c.] An old name of some cestoid worm. ceria2t (sē'ri-ä), n. [L. ceria or cere a , also celia : same as cerevisia , beer. Cf. cerevis .] A drink made of corn; barley-water. E. Phillips , 1706. cerialt, a . An obsolete form of cerrial . ceriama (ser-i-ā'mä), n. Ceriantheæ (ser-i-an' the-ē), n . pl. n . pl . [NL., -ea .] A group of Actinia ria , with nu- their cere. There is but one species, C. nova - holland iæ , sometimes called the pigeon -goose. It has been made the type of a subfamily Cereopsince. 2. A genus of coleopterous insects.-3. A ge- nus of cœlenterates. cereous (sē'rē-us), a. [L. cereus, of wax, cera , wax: see cere , Cereus , cerge .] Waxen; like There I heard them in the darkne , at the mystical cere- mony , Loosely robed in flying raiment, sang the terrible prophet- Tennyson, Boadicea. 2. The formalities observed on some solemn or important public or state occasion in order to render it more imposing or impre ive: as, the ceremony of crowning a king, or of laying a foundation-stone; the ceremony of in augur at- ing the President of the United States. A coarser place, Where pomp and ceremonies enter'd not, Where greatne was shut out, and highne well forgot. Dryden, Fables. 3. A usage of politene , or such usages col- lectively; formality; a punctilious adherence to conventional forms; punctilio. When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforced ceremony . No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. Shak., M. for M., ii. 2. Disrobe the images, IMG:content-0070.png:[blocks in formation] a public occasion; specifically, an officer of the royal household of England who superintends the reception of amba adors. (6) An officer in many European cat he- drals whose busine it is to see that all the ceremonies, vestments the military ceremonies, stated military exercises, such as guard mounting, inspections, parades, reviews funeral escort Eand honors, color escorts, etc.Syn. 1. Porn Ceferony, Obsertance . Form is te Synele Colony, Rite loro in worship without the use of some forms , however sim- ple; we speak of real formate . Ceremony is a broader word than rite in that a rite is always solemn and either an act of religion or suggestive of it, as marriage- rites , What is worth his observation goes into his cereous ta- Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, ii. 5. bles. [L., the godde of agricul- cultivation of grain; prob. ture, esp. of the from the root of creare, create: see create. Cf. ceremony .] 1. In cla . myth ., the name given by the Romans to the Greek godde Demeter, whose worship they adopted with some sub or- dinate differences. She was the mother of Proser pine and, according to some phases of the myth, of Bac- bringing forth fruits, especially watching over the growth of grain (whence the adjective cereal ). The Romans cele brated in her honor the festival of the Cereal i a. Ceres was always rep- resented fully draped. Her at- tributes were ears of corn and poppies, and on her head she sometimes wore a corn-measure. Her sacrifices consisted of pigs and cows. 2. An aste- roid discov- ered by Piaz- zi at Paler- mo, Sicily, in 1801. It is the first discovered of the telescoріс planets or aste- roids which re- volve between the orbits of Mars and Jupi- ter. It is very much smaller Ceres.-Wall-painting from Pompeii, Museo Nazionale, Naples. than the moon, and it presents the appearance of a star of between the seventh and the eighth magnitude. ceresin, ceresine (sērē-sin), n. [Irreg. cera , wax, + -in2, -ine2 .] A white waxy substance consisting of a mixture of paraffins prepared from the mineral ozocerite, and used as an adulterant of and substitute for beeswax. Cereus (sērē-us), n. [NL. (so called from the resemblance of some species to a wax torch), L. cereus , a wax candle, orig. an adj., of wax: see cereous , cerge , cere.] 1. A large genus of cactaceous plants, of the tropical and warm regions of America, including 200 species, 30 IMG:content-0071.png:[blocks in formation] Cerianthide (ser-i-an'thi-de), n . pl . [NL., Cerian- thus. It contains hermaphrodite forms of sea-anemones, the skin of which secretes a glutinous ma filled with nematocysts or a kind of membrane. Also Cereanthida. Ceria nth us (ser-i-an'thus), n. [NL., ἄνθος , a flower. The allusion seems to be to the circles of ten- tacles.] A remarkable genus of hexamerous Anthozoa , having two circlets of numerous ten- tacles, one immediately around the mouth, the other on the margin of the disk, and one pair of the diametral folds of the mouth much longer than the other and produced as far as the pedal pore usually found on the apex of the elongated conical foot. The larva at one stage is tetramerous, with four mesenteries. The genus is typical of the family Cerianthidæ, and belongs to the same order ( Malacoder- mat a ) as the sea-anemones. Also Cere an thus. ceric (sē'rik), a. [ cer ( ium ) + -ic .] Containing cerium as a quadrivalent element: as, ceric oxid, CeO2. ceriferous (se-rif'e-rus), a. [L. cera , wax, + ferre = E. bear.] In bot . , bearing or pro- ducing wax. IMG:content-0072.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0073.png:[blocks in formation] of the sabbath. is well known in cultivation. The old-man cactus, C. se- nil is, is so called from the long gray hairs covering the top of the stem. The most remarkable species are those with tall columnar stems, from 25 to 50 feet high, found chiefly in northwestern Mexico and Arizona, some of Ceriphasiidæ gastropods, typified by the genus Ceriph asia. margin of mantle is entire, the females are ovipa The theater and the rous. The shell varies from an elongate turreted to a subglobular form. The operculum is sub spiral. About 500 species have been described, all of which are inhabitants of North America and the West Indies.