cœnobia

Plural of cœnobium. Cœnobita, cœnobite, etc. See Cenobita, etc. cœnobium (se-no bi-um), n.; pl. cœnobia (-a) (in def. 1) cœnobiums (-umz). [LL. (NL.), A high spiritual life and intellectual cultivation within the numerous cœnobiums was quite compatible with practical paganism and disorder outside. Edinburgh Rev., CLXIII. 450. An Irish cœnobium of the earliest type was simply an ordinary sept or family whose chief had become Christian, and making a gift of his land, either retired, leaving it in the hands of a comarb a, or remained as the religious head himself. Encyc. Brit ., XIII. 248. 2. [NL.] In zoöl., the mulberry-like ma of a compound protozoan, or cluster of many unicellular animals in one stock: originally applied by F. Stein to the spherical clusters of monads at the ends of the branched pedicels of certain Monopolies and coemption of wares for resale, where they infusorians.-3. [NL.] In bot .: (a) A name of are not restrained, are great means to enrich. Bacon, Riches. 3. In Rom. law, one of the modes of civil marriage, consisting in a sort of mutual sale of the parties, effected by the exchange of a small sum of money and other ceremonies. By the religious marriage or Confarreation; by the higher form of civil marriage, which was called Coemption ; and by the lower form, which was termed Usus, the Husband acquired a number of rights over the person and property of his wife, which were on the whole in exce of such as are conferred on him in any system of modern jurisprudence. Maine , Ancient Law (3d Am. ed.), p. 149. coempt or (kō-emp'tor), n . [L., coemere , pp. coempt us , buy up: see coemption .] One who purchases all that there is of any commodity. cœn-. See cœno-.