Celarent

(Logic.) A mode of syllogism in which the major proposition and conclusion are universal negatives, and the minor a universal affirmative. Celastra'ceæ, (SPINDLE-TREES,) n. pl. [Gr. kelastros , an evergreen tree. ( Bot .) An order of plants, alliance Rhamnales. Diag . Polypetalous flowers, and imbricated calyx. They are shrubby plants, with simple leaves and small deciduous stipules. Flowers small, regular, and perfect, or rarely unisexual by abortion; monies; as, the celebration of the Holy Sacrament. -Honor, fame, or distinction bestowed; commendation; praise; as, the celebration of American Independence. C. of marriage. A solemn act by which a man and woman take each other for husband and wife, con formally to the rules prescribed by law. Celebrator, n . One who celebrates. Celeb'rity, n. [Fr. célébrité ; Lat. celeb rit as.] Fame; renown; distinction; eminence. - One who po e es notability, fame, or distinction; as, a literary celebrity . (Generally used in the plural.) Cel'eres, n . pl. (Rom. Hist .) A body of cavalry traditionally stated to have been introduced by Romulus. They consisted of those among the citizens who were rich enough to furnish a horse. They are said to have been 300 in number, and to have been subdivided into three centuries, under the name of Ramnes, Titienses , and Luceres. It is said that the number of the centuries of the C. was raised to six by Tarquinius Priscus, and that this was the origin of the Equites or knights, who in after-times formed a separate cla of citizens. Celeʼriac, n . ( Bot .) See CELERY. Celerity, (se-lère-të,) n . [Lat. celeritas , from celer , quick, speedy, swift.] Speed; swiftne ; quickne or rapidity of motion. Celestine, n . (Min.) A sulphate of strontia, found in beautiful rhomboidal prismatic crystals, a ociated with the sulphur in Sicily. It is so called from the blue tint of many specimens, and is the source from which the nitrate of strontia employed in fire-work compositions is derived. It is the commonest mineral of strontia. Form . SrO.SOg. Celery, ( sèl'e -re,) n. [Fr. céleri, from Ital. celeri ; Gr. selinon, a kind of parsley, so called perhaps from its crisped leaves, from heli o , to turn round or about.] (Hort.) The Apium graveolens , a species of the genus APIUM, q. v . The C. is indigenous in the temperate parts of Europe. In its native station it has the character of being a poisonous plant, but transplanted to a garden, it becomes an agreeable and wholesome vegetable. This is in conformity with the general properties of umbelliferous plants, in which two principles, the aromatic and the narcotic, exist, and which are food or poison, as the one or the other predominates. The narcotic is generated IMG:content-0094.jpg:[graphic][subsumed][subsumed] abundantly in moist places, and the aromatic principally in dry situations; and hence plants that are d. gerous while growing in marshes become wholesome when transferred to dry places. This appears to be one cause of the difference between the wild and the cultivated C.; another is, that the latter is blanched before it is brought to table, and thus the secretion of its deleterious principles is prevented. Of garden C. there are many varieties, the best of which for salad is the Turkish, and for stewing, the Celeriac or the turnip-rooted sort. For soups, the "seeds" may be employed with as much advantage as the stems or leaves. C. is raised in beds, from seed sown from the end of March to the beginning of May, and requires a light, rich, well-drained soil. When the plants in the seedbed are about two or three inches high, they are pricked out into another bed, where they remain till they are six or seven inches high; they are then transferred to trenches, in which they are placed in a row, and finally left. As they advance in size, they are gradually and carefully earthed up, till at last the Fig . 546.- CELERY. whole length of the stem under- (Apium graveolens.) ground is sometimes as much as tury), and was more fully enforced, after a period of re- laxation, in the eleventh. In the Greek church, C. was ordained for bishops at the council of Trullo, A. D. 695; but clergymen below the degree of episcopacy are al- lowed to marry. C. is considered by many as the weak point of the Roman Catholic Church, and it mainly con- tributed to the succe of the Reformation; the immo- rality that then prevailed in the Church causing the priesthood to be despised by the people. At the time of the Reformation the attention of the Church was di- rected to this subject, and it was discu ed at the coun- cil of Trent (1563), whether C. ought still to be main- tained; but the majority were in its favor. Strong rea- sons are urged both for and against the C. of clergymen, which it is not the aim of this book to discu . Cel'ibate, n. Celibacy; condition of an unmarried man. -A bachelor; a single man. -a. Pertaining to the unmarried state of life; as, a cel i- bate existence. mains unmarried.