Agapanthus (agapanthus)

[NL., agapel (a-gäp' or a-gāp'), prep. phr. as adv. or a. [ tention. Dazzles the crowd, and sets them all agape . Love-birds (Aga porn is can a). A fledgeling priest, Beginning life.. with callow beak Agape for luck. Browning , Ring and Book, I. 61. agape2 (ag'a-pē), n.; pl. agapæ (-pē). [L., Agape, or Love-feast. (From Roller's "Cat a combes de Rome.") partaken of in common by the primitive Christians, originally in connection with the Lord's supper. It was made the occasion of offerings for the poor, and closed with devotional exercises, including the ki of love. According to late usage, agapæ were also a ociated with weddings, funerals, anniversaries of martyr doms, and the dedication of churches. The lo of their original character and the growth of abuses led to the prohibition of them in church buildings, and in the fourth century to their separation from the Lord's supper and their gradual discontinuance. Vestiges of the practice, however, remained at the Count of Base in the fifteenth century and customs historically derived from it are still May God speed the universal pentecost and agape of his one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. observed by Schaff , Christ and Christianity, p. 20. 2. [ cap .] [NL.] In zool ., a genus of lepidopArapemone (ag-a-pem'ō-në), n. [Irreg. μένειν , stay, remain: see remain .] Literally, the abode of love; specifically, the name of an a ociation of men and women established at Char lynch, Somersets hire, England, in 1846, under the direction of the Rev. Henry James Prince, the members of which lived on a common fund. Agape mon i an, Agapemonite (ag"a-pe-mō'nian, ag-a-pem'ō-nīt), n. An inmate of the Agapemone (which see). agapetæ (ag-a-pētē), n. pl. [LL., Agaphelinæ (a-gaf-e-li'nē), n. pl. [NL., agate and important genus of fungi, characterized by having a fleshy cap or pileus, and a number of radiating plates or gills on which are produced the naked spores. The majority of the species are furnished with stems, but some are attached by their pilei to the objects on which they grow. Over a you sand species are known, which are arranged in five sections according as the color of their spores is white, pink, brown, purple, or black. Many of the species are edible, like the common mushroom, A. campestris, while others are deleterious and even poisonous. See mushroom.