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A Middle English form of celure. seler2+, n. A Middle English form of seller3. Seleucian (se-lū'si-an), n. [ Seleucus , Σέλευκος, Seleucus (see def.), + -ian.] One of a sect of the third century, which followed Se leucus of Galatia, whose teaching included the doctrines, in addition to those of Hermogenes (see Hermogenean ), that baptism by water is not to be used, and that there is no resurrection of the body and no visible paradise. Seleucid (se-lū ́sid), n. One of the Seleucidæ. Seleucidæ (se-lū'si-dē), n. pl. [L. Seleucides, IMG:content-0532.jpg:[merged small][merged small][graphic] Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise ( Seleucides niger). niger, S. alb us, S. a can thy lis, S. resplend ens, and by other names, as manucode, or promérope à douze filets of the French ornithologists. The male is about 12 inches long; the "wires" are sometimes drawn out 10 inches; the general color is velvety-black, glancing in different lights oil green, coppery or bronze, violet and fiery purple; the black breast plat silky a plumerade frame the belly vent, and flank-plumes tawny-yellow. female is quite different, with much of the plumage bright chestnut, and she has no "wires." This is one of the slen der-billed paradise-birds, ranging with the genera Ptilo This, Drepanornis, and Epimachus. The genus is also called Nema toph or a. self (self), a., pron., and n. [Also Sc. sel ', sell; self (in your, etc., myself), më selfum, 'to me self' (to myself), mē selfne selfne, 'me self' self' (myself), pl. we selfe, 'we 'w self' (we ourselves), etc.; so thu self a ( thu se self ), 'thou self' (thyself), thin selfes, 'of thee self' (of (of thyself), etc., he self a ( hë self ), 'he self' (himself), his selfes, 'of him self' (of himself), etc., etc., the adj. self becoming coalesced with the preceding pronoun in the oblique cases mine, my, me, our, thine, thy, thee, your, his, him, her, their, them, etc., these being ultimately reduced in each instance to a single form, which is practically the dative me, thee, thee, him, her, them, etc. (in which the acc. was merged), mixed in part with the genitive mine, my, our, thine, thy, you these orig. genitives in time a uming the appearance of mere po e ives, and self thus taking on the semblance of a noun governed by them, whence the later independent use of self as a noun (see III.). The reflexive combination me selfe, him selfe ( selve ), etc., came to be used, as the dative of reference, to indicate more distinctly the person referred to - 'I (for) my self,' 'he (for) him self,' etc., thus leading to the emphatic use. The former (AS. ME.) adj. pl. -e has now changed to the noun pl. -es ( selves, as in wolves, wives, etc.). Its Itself and oneself retain the original order of simple juxtaposition: it + self, one + self. In the more common one's self, self is treated as an independent noun.] 1. Same; identical; very same; very. lete or archaic except when followed by See selfsame .] oneself She was slayn, right in the selve place. I. a. [Obsosame. Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 666. Than hit semet, for-so the, that the selfe woman Wold haue faryn hym fro. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T.S.), 1. 13828. As it (discretio) is communely used, it is nat only like to Modestie, but it is the selfe modestie. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, i. 25. To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first. 21. Own; personal. 5475 3. Personal interest and benefit; one's own private advantage. but self was the steady, unchangeable centre. the fight be more or le expanded, Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 24. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pa 'd in music out of sight. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 4. In hort., a flower with its natural plain color; a self-colored flower, as distinguished from gated. Compare self - colored. [ Self is the first eleone which has become "rectified" or varie ment in numerous compounds, nearly all modern. It may be used with any noun having an a ociated verb, or with any participial adjective (in -ing2 or -ed2 or -enl), or other adjective implying action. It indicates either the agent or the object of the action expre ed by the word with which it is joined, or the person on on behalf of whom it is performed, or the person or thing to, for, or toward IMG:content-0533.png:[blocks in formation]