philesiacesæ

pl. [Mod. Lat. philesi (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.] Bot.: Philesiads; an order of Dictyogens. Twining or upright shrubs, with coriaceous, deciduous, IMG:content-0990.png:[blocks in formation] phil-har-mon-Ic, a. [Pref. phil-, and Eng. har monic.] Loving music; fond of harmony. Phil-hel-lene, s . [Pref. phil- , and Eng. Hellene ; Fr. philhellene .] A Philhellenist. Phil-hel-lên'-Ic, a . [Pref. phil- , and Eng. Hellenic.] Pertaining to or characteristic of Philhellenists; loving Greece or the Greeks. Phil-hěl-len-ism, s . [Pref. phil- , and English Hellenism .] The principles of the Philhellenists; love of Greece. "The European Philhellenism of sixty years ago."London Standard. Phil-hěl-len-Ist, s . & a. [Pref. phil- , and Eng. Hellenist .] A. As subst .: A friend of Greece or the Greeks; a supporter of the cause of Greece; especially a supporter of the Greeks in their struggle for independence against the 'Turks. B. As adj .: The same as PHILHELLENIC (q. v.). phil-hy-dri-da, s . pl . [PHILHYDRUS.] Entom.: A synonym of Palpi corni a (q. v.). phil-hy-drŭs, s. [Gr. philydros =loving water.] Entom.: The typical genus of the sub-cribe Phil hydrid a. phil-I-beg, s. (FILLIBEG.) Phi-lip-pi-an, a. & s. [See def.] A. As adj .: Of or pertaining to Philippi, or its inhabitants. B. As subst.: A native or inhabitant of Philippi, a city of Thrace, northeast of A mph i polis, in the immediate vicinity of Mount Pangœus. It was founded by Philip of Macedon, on the site of an old Thasian settlement called Crenides. pians: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philip New Test. Canon: An epistle addre ed by St. Paul, in conjunction with Timothy, "to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons." Shortly after Paul had pa ed for the first time from Asia to Europe, he reached Philippi, then a Roman provincial capital and colony (Acts xvi. 12). It lay about nine miles inland. His first convert, Lydia, was from Thyatira, in Asia Minor (Acts xvi. 14; cf. Rev. i. 4, 11); his next was a certain damsel po e ed with a spirit of divination (16-18) in connection with whom rioting occurred, followed by Paul's imprisonment, and the conversion of his jailer (19-40). Thus Paul was the founder of the Philip pian church. Timothy was subsequently sent into Macedonia, and doubtle to Philippi (xix. 22), Paul himself follow ing (xx. 1-6). (Compare with the facts regarding Timothy, Philip pians i. 1, ii. 19-23.) The Philip pians had oftener than once sent the Apostle pecu niary contributions (iv. 10-18), long being the only church which had done so. Epaphroditus had brought these gifts (ii. 25, iv. 18), and afterward, falling very dangerously sick (ii. 26, 27), Paul had sent him back that the Philip pians might be a ured of his recovery, apparently requesting him to carry with him the epistle (ii. 28). The Apostle when he sent the epistle was a prisoner in Rome (i. 7, 13; iv. 22). He expected release (i. 25; ii. 24), though martyrdom was by no means impo ible. He expre es intense affection for the Philip pians (i. 8), and thankfulne for their Christian character (i. 4). He counsels them to avoid strife, vain glory, murmurings, controversies (ii. 3, 14), points to the Son of God as the exemplar of humility and self-sacrifice (ii. 5-11), and warns his readers against Judaizing teachers (iii. 2-11), and immoral and self-seeking men (18,19). The Christians sending salutations to the church at Philippi were chiefly of Cæsar's household (iv. 22). The genuinene of this epistle is generally admitted, though Baur (1845), and Schwegler (1846), held the contrary view. Its date was probably early in A. D.63. phi-lip-pic, s. [Lat. Philippic a =( Juvenal , x. 125) the speeches of Demosthenes against Philip; Gr. Philippikos =pertaining to Philip of Macedon; Fr. philip pique .] 1. Orig .: One of a series of celebrated orations spoken by Demosthenes, the A then i an orator, against Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, in which he endeavored to arouse the Athe nians from their indolence. 2. Any discourse full of acrimonious invective. phillyrea