solitariety (solitarieti)

[L. solitarius, alone, lonely, + -ety.] Solitary condition or state; alonene . According to the Egyptians, before all entities and principles there is one God, who is in order of nature before Chim that is commonly called) the first God and King, immoveable, and alway remaining in the solitariety of his own unity. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 336. solitarily (sol'i-ta-ri-li), adv. In a solitary manner; without company; alone; by one's self; in solitude. Solitude; loneline . I shall be abandoned at once to solitarity and penury. W. Taylor, To Southey, Dec. 10, 1811. solitary (sol'i-ta-ri), a. and n. [ rie , solytarye , solitarie , solitaire , F. soli taire = Pr. solitari , soletari = Sp. Pg. It. soli tario, solitarius , solitary (LL. as n. an anchorite), for * soli tatar i us , solita (t-)s, loneline , solus , alone: see sole3.] I. a. 1. Living alone, or by one's self or by itself; without companions or a ociates; habitually inclined to avoid company. Those rare and solitary , these in flocks. Milton , P. L., vii. 461. The solitary man is as speechle as the lower animals. Whitney, Life and Growth of Lang., p. 286. 2. All by one's self; without companions; un attended. The Indian holds his course, silent, solitary , but undaunted, through the boundle bosom of the wilderne . Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 351. 3. Marked by solitude; especially, remote from solitude with only occasional acce of any other person, and that only at the discretion of the jailer; in a stricter sense, the complete isolation of a prisoner from all human society, and his confinement in a cell so arranged that he has no direct intercourse with, or sight of, any human being, and no employment or instruction. Miller, J., in re Medley, 134 U. S., 160.- Solitary follicle. See solitary gland, under gland. - Solitary funiculus, a round bundle of fibers laterad of the combined small-celled nucleus of the glo opharyngeus, vagus, and spinal acce ory, which pa es out as one of the roots of the glo opharyngeus, but may contribute to the vagus and acce ory. Also called ascend ing root of glo opharyngeus, fasciculus rotund us, ascending root of the lateral mixed system, fasciculus solitarius, respiratory bundle, and fascicle of Krause. - Solitary glands. See gland. - Solitary greenlet or vireo, Vireo solitarius, the blue-headed greenlet or vireo of the United States, having greenish upper parts, a bluish IMG:content-1518.jpg:[graphic] Solitary Greenlet or Vireo ( Vireo solitarius). head, an eye-ring, and the under parts white, tinged with yellowish on the sides. It is 51⁄2 inches long, and 8t in extent of wings. Solitary sandpiper, the green sandpiper of North America, Rhy a cop hilus solitarius, 84 inches long, extent 16, having the upper parts blackish with a tinge of green and spotted with white, the under parts white, streaked on the throat and breast with dusky, barred on the sides, lining of wings, and tail with black and white, the bill black, the feet greenish-black. See cut under Rhy a cop hilus. - Solitary snipe. See snipe, 1 (a) (2). — wasps, wasps which, like certain bees and ants, do not society; unfrequented; retired; secluded; lone- Solitary vireo. Same as solitary greenlet. - Solitary ly: as, a solitary glen. Whiche bot he lye in the abbey of saynt Justyne vyrgyn, a place of Blake Monkes, ryght delectable, and also soly- tar ye. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 6. well. Cor. And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone?. Touch.... In respect that it is solitary , I like it very Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 16. 4. Free from the sounds of human life; still; dismal. Let that night be solitary , let no joyful voice come therein. Job iii. 7. 5. Having a sense of loneline ; lonesome. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. Emerson, Nature, i. 6t. Retiring; diffident. Your honour doth say that you doe iudge me to be a man solitarie and vertuous. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 78. 7. Pa ed without company; shared by no companions; lonely. I was upon Point of going abroad to steal a solitary Walk, when yours of the 12th current came to hand. Howell , Letters, ii. 50. Him fair Lavinia, thy surviving wife, Shall breed in groves, to lead a solitary life. Dryden, Eneid, vi. 1038. 8. Single; sole; only, or only one: as, a soli tary instance; a solitary example. A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony. Byron, Don Juan, ii. 53. Politene was his [Charles II.'s] solitary good quality. Macaulay , Dryden. 9. In bot., one only in a place; separate: as, a solitary stipule. A flower is said to be solitary when there is only one on each peduncle, or only one to each plant; a seed, when there is only one in a pericarp. All the New Zealand species [ Pterostylis trull i folia ] bear solitary flowers, so that distinct plants cannot fail to be Social, intercro ed. Darwin, Fertil. of Orchids by Insects, p. 89. 10. In an at., single; separate; not clustered; ered; not agminate or gathered into patches; patches; simple; not compound: as, the solitary follicles of the intestine.-11. In zool.: (a) Not social, sociable, or gregarious: noting species living habitually alone, alone, or in pairs only. (b) Simple; not compound, aggregate, or colonial: as, soli tary ascidians. See Simplices. - Solitary ants, the Mutillidæ or spider-ants. - Solitary bees, bees that do not live in a hive or community like the honey-bee, and are represented only by developed males and females, like most insects. There are very many species, of numerous genera. The designation is chiefly descriptive, not cla ificatory, but sometimes denotes the Andrenidæ as distinguished from the Apida. - Solitary bundle. Same as solitary funiculus. - Solitary confinement, in a general sense, the separate confinement of a prisoner, A Solitary Wasp ( Larrada semirufa). (Cro shows natural size.) live in society, as the true wasps of the families Eumeni dæ and Masaride, as well as all the digger-wasps: contrasted with social wasps. See digger - wasp, sand - wasp, and wasp. II. n.; pl. solitaries (-riz). -riz). One who lives alone or in solitude; an anchorite; a recluse; a hermit. The world itself has some attractions in it to a solitary of six years' standing. Gray, Letters, I. 154. Downward from his mountain gorge Stept the long-hair'd, long-bearded solitary . Tennyson, Enoch Arden. solito (sol'i-to), adv. [It., solitude (sol'i-tud), n. [ solitude , solitude = It. solitudine , solitudo , loneline , solus , alone: see sole3 .] 1. The state of being alone; a lonely life; loneline . Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extend eth; for a crowd is not company.. It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends. Bacon, Friendship. O, might I here In solitude live savage, in some glade Obscured! Milton , P. L., ix. 1085. 2. Remotene from society; lack or utter want of companionship: applied to place: as, the solitude of a wood or a valley. The solitude of his little parish is become matter of great comfort to him. Law . 3. A lonely, secluded, or unfrequented place; a desert. We walked about 2 miles from ye citty to an agreeable solitude called Du Ple is, a house belonging to ye King. Evelyn , Diary, June 7, 1644. solitude There is such an agreeable variety of fields, wood, water, and cascades that it is one of the most delightful soli tudes I ever saw. longing for ignition concionesomene le spiritual than physical, growing out of the animal instinct for society and the desire of protection, the consciousne of being alone: as, the lonesomene of a walk through a cemetery at night. Lonesomene , more often than loneline , may expre the impre ion made upon the observer. solivagant (sō-liv'a-gant), a. [L. solus, alone, + vag an (t-)s, ppr. of vagari, wander, roam: see vagrant.] Same as solivagous. [Rare.]