Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SEM-I-OR'DIN-ATE, n. [semi and ordinate.]

In conic sections, a line drawn at right angles to and bisected by the axis, and reaching from one side of the section to the other; the half of which is properly the semi-ordinate, but is not called the ordinate.

SEM-I-OS'SE-OUS, a. [semi and osseous.]

Of a bony nature, but only half as hard as bone. – Med. and Phys. Journ.

SEM-I-O'VATE, a. [semi and ovate.]

Half ovate. – Lee.

SEM-I-OX'Y-GEN-A-TED, a.

Combined with oxygen only in part. – Kirwan.

SEM-I-PA'GAN, a.

Half pagan.

SEM-I-PAL'MATE, or SEM-I-PAL'MA-TED, a. [semi and palmate.]

Half palmated or webbed. – Nat. Hist.

SEM'I-PED, n. [semi and L. pes, a foot.]

A half foot in poetry.

SEM-IP'E-DAL, a.

Containing a half foot.

SEM-I-PE-LA'GI-AN, a.

Pertaining to the Semi-pelagians, or their tenets.

SEM-I-PE-LA'GI-AN, n.

In ecclesiastical history, the Semi pelagians are persons who retain some tincture of the doctrines of Pelagius. [See Pelogianism.] They hold that God has not by predestination dispensed his grace to one more than to another; that Christ died for all men; that the grace purchased by Christ, and necessary to salvation, is offered to all men; that man, before he receives grace, is capable of faith and holy desires; and that man being born free, capable of accepting grace, or of resisting its influences. – Encyc.

SEM-I-PE-LA'GI-AN-ISM, n.

The doctrines or tenets the Semi-pelagians, supra.

SEM-I-PEL-LU'CID, a. [semi and pellucid.]

Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semi-pellucid gem. – Woodward.

SEM-I-PEL-LU-CID'I-TY, n.

The quality or state of being imperfectly transparent.

SEM-I-PER-SPIC'U-OUS, a. [semi and perspicuous.]

Half transparent; imperfectly clear. – Grew.

SEM-I-PHLO-GIS'TIC-A-TED, a. [semi and phlogisticated.]

Partially impregnated with phlogiston. [Obs.]

SEM-I-PRI-MIG'EN-OUS, a. [semi and primigenous.]

In geology, of a middle nature between substances of primary and secondary formation. – Kirwan.

SEM'I-PROOF, n. [semi and proof.]

Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness. [Little used.] – Bailey.

SEM-I-PRO'TO-LITE, n. [semi and Gr. πρωτος, first, λιθος, stone.]

A species of fossil of a middle nature between substances of primary and those of secondary formation. – Kirwan.

SEM-I-QUAD'RATE, or SEM-I-QUAR'TILE, n. [L. semi and quadratus, or quartus, fourth.]

An aspect of the planets, when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, one sign and a half. – Bailey.

SEM'I-QUA-VER, n. [semi and quaver.]

In music, a note of half the duration of the quaver; the sixteenth of the semibreve.

SEM'I-QUA-VER, v.t.

To sound or sing in semiquavers. – Cowper.

SEM-I-QUIN'TILE, n. [L. semi and quintilis.]

An aspect of the planets, when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees. – Bailey.

SEM-I-SAV'AGE, a. [semi and savage.]

Half savage; half barbarian.

SEM-I-SAV'AGE, n.

One who is half savage or imperfectly civilized. – J. Barlow.

SEM-I-SEX'TILE, n. [semi and sextile.]

An aspect of the planets, when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees. – Bailey.