epiperipheral (ep"i per i feral)

On comparing these three great orders of feelings, we found that whereas the epiperipheral are relational to a very great extent, the entoperipheral, and still more the cen tral, have but small aptitudes for entering into relations. IMG:content-0614.jpg:[graphic] H. Spencer . IMG:content-0615.png:[merged small][subsumed][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small] while an epinicial song was chanted. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry IMG:content-0616.png:[ocr errors] epiphany tation of one's presence: used especially with reference to appearances of a deity. Him, whom but just before they beheld transfigured, and in a glorious epiphany upon the mount. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 93. .. the god [Apollo] him Every 19th year, we are told,. self appeared to his worshippers about the vernal equinox, and during a long epiphany "would harp and dance in the sky until the rising of the Pleiades." C. Elton , Origins of Eng. Hist., p. 90. 2. Among the ancient Greeks, a festival held in commemoration of the appearance of a god in any particular place. -3. [ cap.] A Christian festival, closing the series of Christmas observances, celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas (hence called Twelfth-day), in commemoration of the manifestations of Christ to the world as the Son of God, in the West especially that to the Gentiles through the visit of the Magi in his infancy. It was early instituted in the East in celebration both of his nativity and of his baptism, the former being afterward transferred to the 25th of December. In has been observed since the fourth century with special reference to the visit of the Magi or the three kings, with which are combined in the Roman Catholic Church his baptism and his first miracle at Cana of Galilee. Therefore, though the church do now call Twelfth-day Epiphany, because upon that day Christ was manifested to the Gentiles in those wise men who came then to wor ship him, yet the ancient church called this day [the day of Christ's birth] the Epiphany, because this day Christ was manifested to the world, by being born this day. Donne, Sermons, iv. epipharyngeal (epi-fa-rin'je-al), a. and n. [ The anterior four pair [of branchial arches] are composed of several joints, and the uppermost articulations of more or fewer of them usually expand, bear teeth, and form the epipharyngeal bones. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 136. (b) In ascidians, situated on the upper part of the pharyngeal cavity or branchial sac. II. n. In ichth ., an epipharyngeal bone. epipharynx (ep-i-far'inks), n. [NL., pharynx .] In entom ., a fleshy lobe beneath the labrum, forming a valve which covers the opening of the pharynx or gullet. It is best seen in the Hymenoptera . Also called epiglottis . See cut under Hyme noptera. Median projections on the internal surface of the upper and lower lips [of an insect] are distinguished as epipha rynx and hypopharynx respectively. Claus, Zoology (trans.), I. 524.