Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CELT'IC, n.

The language of the Celts.

CELT'I-CISM, n.

The manners and customs of the Celts. – Warton.

CELT'IS, n.

The nettle tree, a genus of several species; among which are the Australis, or Southern, a native of Africa and the South of Europe; the Oriental, growing in Armenia and Taurica; and the Western, growing in Virginia. – Encyc. Tooke.

CEM'ENT, n. [L. cæmentum; Fr. ciment; Arm. cimant; Sp. cimiento, the ground work of a building; It. cimento, an essay or experiment.]

1. Any glutinous or other substance capable of uniting bodies in close cohesion, as mortar, glue, soder, &c. In building, cement denotes a stronger kind of mortar than that which is ordinarily used. – Encyc.
2. Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
3. Powders or pastes, surrounding bodies in pots and crucibles, for chimical purposes.

CE-MENT', v.i.

To unite or become solid; to unite and cohere. – Sharp.

CE-MENT', v.t.

1. To unite by the application of glutinous substances, by mortar which hardens, or other matter that produces cohesion of bodies.
2. To unite firmly or closely; as, to cement all parts of the community; to cement friendship.

CEM-EN-TA'TION, n.

1. The act of cementing; the act of uniting by a suitable substance.
2. In chimistry, the act of applying cements to substances, or the corroding and changing of them by cement. This is done by surrounding them with the powder of another body, and exposing them, in a close vessel, to a heat not sufficient to fuse them. – Encyc. Ure.

CE-MENT'A-TO-RY, a.

Cementing; having the quality of uniting firmly. – Encyc.

CE-MENT'ED, pp.

United by cement; changed by cement; firmly united; consolidated.

CE-MENT'ER, n.

The person or thing that cements.

CE-MENT'ING, ppr.

Uniting by cement; changing by means of a cement; uniting closely; consolidating.

CE-MEN-TI'TIOUS, a.

Having the quality of cementing, Forsyth: uniting, as cement; conglutinating; tending to unite or consolidate.

CEM'E-TER-Y, n. [L. cœmeterium; Gr. κοιμητηριον, from κοιμαω, to sleep.]

A place where the dead bodies of human beings are buried. – Addison.

CEN'A-TO-RY, a. [L. cœnatorius, from cœna, supper, cœno, to sup.]

Pertaining or relating to supper. – Brown.

CEN'O-BITE, n. [Gr. κοινοβιοτης, a community, from κοινος, common, and βιος, life, βιοω, to live.]

One of a religious order, who live in a convent, or in community; in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude. – Encyc.

CEN-O-BIT'IC, or CEN-O-BIT'IC-AL, a.

Living in community, as men belonging to a convent. – Stillingfleet.

CE'NO-BY, n.

A place where persons live in community. – Buck.

CEN'O-TAPH, n. [Gr. κεωοταφιον, from κενος, empty, and ταφος, a tomb.]

An empty tomb erected in honor of some deceased person; a monument erected to one who is buried elsewhere. – Johnson. Encyc.

CENSE, n. [cens; L. census, a valuation, a registering, a tax; censeo, to enroll, to tax. Qu. Ch. קנם, to impose a fine.]

1. A public rate or tax. – Bacon.
2. Condition; rank. [Obs.] – B. Jonson.

CENSE, v.t. [Fr. encenser. See Incense.]

To perfume with odors from burning substances. – Dryden.

CENS'ER, n. [Fr. encensoir; Sp. incensario; It. incensiere. See Incense.]

A vase or pan in which incense is burned. Among the Jews, a kind of chafing-dish, covered by a dome, and suspended by a chain, used to offer perfumes in sacrifices. – Encyc.

CENS'ING, ppr.

Perfuming with odors.

CEN'SION, n. [L. censio. See Cense.]

A rate, tax, or assessment. – J. Hall.

CENS'OR, n. [L. censor. See Cense.]

1. An officer in ancient Rome, whose business was to register the effects of the citizens, to impose taxes according to the property which each man possessed, and to inspect the manners of the citizens, with power to censure vice and immorality by inflicting a public mark of ignominy on the offender.
2. One who is empowered to examine all manuscripts and books, before they are committed to the press, and to see that they contain nothing heretical or immoral. – Encyc.
3. One who is given to censure. – Roscommon. Dryden.

CEN-SO'RI-AL, or CEN-SO'RI-AN, a.

1. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals; as, censorial power.
2. Full of censure. See Censorious, the proper word.