solemnizer

[Eng.solemniz(e); -er.] One who solemnizes; one who performs a solemn rite. sol - ęmn - lỹ (n silent), *solempnely, *301empneliche, adv. [Eng. solemn; -ly.] 1. In a solemn manner; with religious rites or ceremonies; reverently. "By which he lyes entombed solemnly." Spenser: F. Q.: II. x. 46. 2. With impre ive seriousne or gravity. "To the eleven, whose loyalty remained as yet un shaken, Jesus in that awful hour gave it soleninly in charge, 'to love one another, as he had loved them.' " Bishop Horsley : Sermons, vol. i., ser. 12. 3. With all due form; ceremoniously, formally regularly. 4. With formal or affected gravity, importance, or stateline . "There are, in points of wisdom and sufficiency, that do nothing or little very solemnly." -Bacon: E ays. sō-lě-my-a, subst . [Lat. solen (q. v.), and mya (q. v.).] Zool. & Palæont.: A genus of Arcade (q. v.). with four recent species, from the United States, Africa, the Canaries, Australia, and New Zealand Valves of shell sub-cylindrical, elongated, gaping at each end, hinge edentulous; epidermis dark, horny, extending beyond margins. Four fo il species, from the Coal-measures of Britain and Belgium onward. sō-lên, s. [Lat., from Gr. sōlên =(1) a channel. a pipe; (2) Solen siliqua, the Razor-fish, or Pholas See GRAVE.