absorbability (absorbabiliti)

The state or quality of being absorbable. absorbable (ab-sôr'ba-bl), a. Capable of being absorbed or imbibed. 1. Drawn in or absorbed (ab-sôrbd'), p . a . sucked up. Specifically applied to the coloring in paint- ings when the oil has sunk into the canvas, leaving the color flat and the touches dead or indistinct: nearly sy- nonymous with sunk in . (a) According to Rom. Cath. theol., a remi ion of sin, which the priest, on the ground of authority received 3t. To accomplish; finish. from Christ, makes in the sacrament of penance (which see). "It is not a mere announcement of the gospel, or a bare declaration that God will pardon the sins of those The work begun, how soon Absolved , Milton , P. L., vii. 94. who repent, but, as the Council of Trent defines it, is 4t. To solve; resolve; explain. a judicial act by which a priest as judge pa es a sentence on the penitent." Cath. Dict. (b) According to Prot. theol., a sacerdotal declaration a uring the penitent of divine forgivene on the ground of his repentance and faith. In the Roman Catholic Church the priest pronounces the absolution in his own name: "I absolve thee." In Protestant communions that use a form of absolution, and in the Greek Church, it is pronounced in the name of God and as a prayer: "God [or Christ] absolve thee." By absolution [in the Augsburg Confe ion) is meant the official declaration of the clergyman to the penitent that his sins are forgiven him upon finding or believing that he is exercising a godly sorrow, and is trusting in the blood Shedd, Hist. of Christ. Doct. of Christ. 21. Abolition; abolishment. But grant it true [that the Liturgy ordered too many ceremonies), not a total absolution , but a reformation thereof, may hence be inferred. Fuller , Ch. Hist., XI. x. 8. 3. In civil law , a sentence declaring an accused person to be innocent of the crime laid to his charge.- Absolution from censures ( eccles .), the removal of penalties imposed by the church. - Absolution for the dead ( eccles .), a short form of prayer for the re pose of the soul, said after a funeral ma . - Absolutions in the breviary ( eccles.), certain short prayers said before the le ons in matins, and before the chapter at the end of prime. = Syn. 1. Remi ion, etc. See pardon, n. absolutism (ab'so-lū-tizm), n. [ We shall not absolve the doubt. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 10. =Syn. 1. To free, release, excuse, liberate, exempt.-2. To acquit, excuse, clear, pardon, forgive, justify. See acquit. One who absolves; absolver (ab-sol'ver), n. one who remits sin, or pronounces it to be re- mitted. absolvitor (ab-sol'vi-tor), п. [Irreg. ab- solvere : see absolve .] In law , a decree of absolution. - Decree of absolvitor, in Scots law , a decree in favor of the defendant in an action. A decree in favor of the pursuer or plaintiff is called a decree con- demnator . absolvitory (ab-sol'vi-to-ri), a . [ See absolva- tory .] Absolutory; absolvatory. absonant (ab'sō-nant), a . [L. ab + son an (t-)s: see sonant , and cf. absonous.] Wide from the purpose; contrary; discordant: opposed to consonant: as, “ absonant to nature," Quarles , The Mourner. [Now rare.] absonatet (ab'sō-nat), v. t. [For " absoniate , abs on i at us , pp. of abs on i are , avoid, lit. be discordant: see absonous .] To avoid; detest. Ash . absonoust (ab'sō-nus), a. [ ab , from, + son us , sound: see sound5 .] 1. Unmusical.-2. Figuratively, discordant; opposed; contrary: as, " absonous to our rea- son," Glanville , Scep. Sci., iv. The province of absolutism is not to dispose of the absorb (ab-sorb'), v. t. [ national life, but to maintain it without those checks on the exercise of power which exist elsewhere. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, § 99. From the time of its first conversion Germany has never. taken kindly to the claims of absolutism , either of authority or of belief, so strongly put forward by the Church. G. S. Hall , German Culture, p. 310. 2. The principle of absolute individual power in government; belief in the unrestricted right of determination or disposal in a sovereign.3. The theological doctrine of predestination or absolute decrees.-4. The metaphysical doctrines of the absolutists. = Syn. 1. Tyranny, Autocracy, Absolutism, etc. See despotism.