Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CA-LUM'NI-ATE, v.i.

To charge falsely and knowingly with a crime or offense; to propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another.

CA-LUM'NI-ATE, v.t. [See Calumny.]

To accuse or charge one falsely, and knowingly, with some crime, offense, or something disreputable; to slander.

CA-LUM'NI-A-TED, pp.

Slandered; falsely and maliciously accused of what is criminal, immoral, or disgraceful.

CA-LUM'NI-A-TING, ppr.

Slandering.

CA-LUM-NI-A'TION, n.

False accusation of a crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.

CA-LUM'NI-A-TOR, n.

One who slanders; one who falsely and knowingly accuses another of a crime or offense, or maliciously propagates false accusations or reports.

CA-LUM'NI-A-TO-RY, a.

Slanderous. Montagu.

CA-LUM'NI-OUS, a.

Slanderous; bearing or implying calumny; injurious to reputation.

CA-LUM'NI-OUS-LY, adv.

Slanderously.

CA-LUM'NI-OUS-NESS, n.

Slanderousness. Bp. Morton.

CAL'UM-NY, n. [L. calumnia; Fr. calomnie; It. calumnia. If m is radical, this word may be allied to calamity, both from the sense of falling upon, rushing, or throwing on. If m is not radical, this word may be the Gothic holon, to calumniate, Saxon holan, to rush upon. The word is found in Ir. guilimne, calumny, guilimnighim, to calumniate or reproach.]

Slander; false accusation of a crime or offense, knowingly or maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; false representation of facts reproachful to another, made by design, and with knowledge of its falsehood; sometimes followed by on. Neglected calumny soon expires. Murphy's Tacitus.

CAL'VA-RY, n. [L. calvaria, from calva, a skull or scalp; Ir. calb, the head; Sp. calvario, calva; It. calvo.]

1. A place of skulls; particularly, the place where Christ was crucified on a small hill west of Jerusalem. In Catholic countries, a kind of chapel raised on a hillock near a city, as a place of devotion, in memory of the place where our Savior suffered.
2. In heraldry, a cross, so called, set upon steps, resembling the cross on which our Savior was crucified.
3. In architecture, a chapel, erected by Romanists, on a hill, in which are represented the mysteries of Christ's death. Elmes.

CALVE, v.i. [càv; from calf; Sax. calfian.]

1. To bring forth young, as a cow.
2. In a metaphorical sense, and sometimes by way of reproach, as when applied to the human race, to bring forth; to produce.

CAL'VER, v.i.

To shrink by cutting, and not fall to pieces. [Not in use.] Cotton.

CAL'VER, v.t.

To cut in slices. [Not in use.] B. Jonson.

CALVES'SNOUT, n.

A plant, snap-dragon, Antirrhinum.

CAL'VILLE, n. [Fr.]

A sort of apple.

CAL'VIN-ISM, n.

The theological tenets or doctrines of Calvin, who was born in Picardy in France, and in 1535 chosen professor of divinity, and minister of a church in Geneva. The distinguishing doctrines of this system are, original sin, particular election and reprobation, particular redemption, effectual grace in regeneration, or a change of heart by the spirit of God, justification by free grace, perseverance of the saints, and the Trinity.

CAL'VIN-IST, n.

A follower of Calvin; one who embraces the theological doctrines of Calvin.

CAL-VIN-IST'IC, or CAL-VIN-IST'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to Calvin, or to his opinions in theology.

CAL'VIN-IZE, v.t.

To convert to Calvinism.

CALV-ISH, a. [from calf]

Like a calf. [More properly, Calfish.] Sheldon.

CAL'VI-TY, n.

Baldness.

CALX, n. [plur. calxes or calces. L. calx; Sax. cealc, a stone, calculus, and chalk; D. kalk; G. kalk; Sw. kalck; Dan. kalk; Fr. chaux. The same word signifies chalk, lime, mortar, and the heel, and from that is formed calculus, a little stone. The word then signifies primarily, a lump, or clod, or hard mass, and is allied to callus. If calx is from χαλιξ, the usual orthography was not observed by the Latins. See Calculate.]

Properly lime or chalk; but more appropriately, the substance of a metal or mineral which remains after being subjected to violent heat, burning, or calcination, solution by acids, or detonation by niter, and which is or may be reduced to a fine powder. Metallic calxes are now called oxyds. They are heavier than the metal from which they are produced, being combined with oxygen. Coxe. Encyc. Calx nativa, native calx, a kind of marly earth, of a dead whitish color, which, in water bubbles or hisses and without burning will make a cement, like lime or gypsum. Calx viva, quick lime, is lime not slaked.

CA-LYC'I-NAL, or CAL'Y-CINE, a.

Pertaining to a calyx; situated on a calyx. Martyn.