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[Lat. priscus, for prius - cus.] Of or belonging to former time; primitive, primeval. pris-çil-as, s. [Etym. doubtful.] Gla - blowing : A jaw-tool, resembling pincers, used for pinching in the neck of a bottle, or giving it some peculiar shape while it is revolved on the end of the pontil which rolls upon the arms of the gla -blower's chair. Pris-çil-li-an-Ist, 8. [For etym. see defs.] Church History ( pl .): †1. A name sometimes given to the Mon tanists, from the name of one of the two ladies (Priscilla and Maxilla) who joined Montan us, and profe ed to have the spirit of prophecy. 2. The followers of Priscillian, bishop of Avila, in Spain, in the fourth century. They were condemned by a synod at Sarago a in 380, but lingered on till after the Council of Braga, in 563. [HERETIC, II. 1.] "The Priscillianists came very near in their views to the Manichæans. For they denied the reality of Christ's birth and incarnation; maintained that the visible uni. verse was not the production of God, but of some demon or evil principle; preached the existence of Æons, or emanations from God condemned marriages, Fr. prism at i que .] 1. Pertaining to or resembling a prism. "Giving to a piece of ordinary gla a prismatical shape." -Boyle: Works, iii. 487. 3. Bot .: Having several longitudinal angles and intermediate flat faces, as the calyx of Frankenia pulverulent a. prismatic-colors, s. pl. The colors into which a ray of light is decomposed by pa ing through a prism. [SPECTRUM.] prismatic-compa , subst. An instrument for measuring horizontal angles by means of the magnectic meridian. prismatic iron-pyrites, 8. [MARCASITE.] pris-măt-Ic-al-ly, adv . [Eng. prismatical ; -ly .] In the form or manner of a prism; by means of a prism. pris-mat-o-car-pě-æ, s . pl . [Mod. Latin pris matocarp(us); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff.-eœ.] Bot .: A tribe of Campanulacese. pris-mat-o-car-pus, s. [Greek prism a (gen it. prismatos ) =a prism, and karpos =fruit.] Botany: The typical genus of Prismatocarpeæ (q.v.). Prism a to carpus speculum is Venus' Look ing-gla .