[Latin humilians

of humilio = to humiliate (q. v.).] Humiliating. ( Browning.) hu-mil-I-āte, v . t . [Lat. humiliatus , pa. par. of humilio to humiliate; humilis humble (q. v.); Fr. humilier ; Sp. humillar ; Ital. umiliare .] To humble; to lower in one's own estimation, or that of others; to abase, to mortify. "We should humiliate and deiect our selues in the sight of his maiestie."-Fisher: On Prayer. "She knew it, she had failed In sweet humility." Tennyson: Prince , vii. 214. 2. Affability, courtesy, condescension. "[I] dre ed myself in such humility , That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. I., iii. 2. *3. Kindne , benevolence, humanity. "Plant in tyrants mild humility." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , iv. 3. hü-min, s . [Lat.=humus (the ground), and -in . ] [VEGETABLE-MOLD.] hu-mir-i-ā-çě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. humiri (um); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.] Bot.: A genus of hypogynous exogens, alliance Ericales. It consists of trees or shrubs with balsamic juice, simple, alternate, coriaceous, feather veined leaves without stipules; the flowers in terminal or axillary cymes or corymbs, calyx imbricated in five divisions, the petals five, the stamens hypogynous, twenty or more, style simple, stigma five-lobed, ovary superior, five-celled, each with one or two suspended ovules; fruit drupaceous. Genera about three, species eighteen or more, all from tropical America. ( Lindley .)