Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: CER-E-MO'NI-AL – CER'TAIN
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CER-E-MO'NI-AL, a. [See Ceremony.]
- Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites; as, ceremonial exactness. It is particularly applied to the forms and rites of the Jewish religion; as, the ceremonial law, or worship, as distinguished from the moral and judicial law.
- Formal; observant of old forms; exact; precise in manners. – Dryden. In this sense, ceremonious is now used.
CER-E-MO'NI-AL, n.
- Outward form; external rite, or established forms or rites, including all the forms prescribed; a system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law or established by custom, whether in religious worship, in social intercourse, or in the courts of princes.
- The order for rites and forms in the Romish church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions.
CER-E-MO'NI-AL-LY, adv.
According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean; an act ceremonially unlawful. – Milton.
CER-E-MO'NI-OUS, a.
- Consisting of outward forms and rites; as, the ceremonious part of worship. In this sense, ceremonial is now used.
- Full of ceremony or solemn forms. – Shak.
- According to the rules and forms prescribed or customary; civil; formally respectful. “Ceremonious phrases.” – Addison.
- Formal; according to the rules of civility; as, to take a ceremonious leave.
- Formal; exact; precise; too observant of forms.
CER-E-MO'NI-OUS-LY, adv.
In a ceremonious manner; formally; with due forms.
The use of customary forms; the practice of too much ceremony; great formality in manners.
CER'E-MO-NY, n. [L. Sp. It. Port. ceremonia; Fr. ceremonie.]
- Outward rite; external form in religion.
- Forms of civility; rules established by custom for regulating social intercourse.
- Outward forms of state; the forms prescribed or established by order or custom, serving for the purpose of civility or magnificence, as in levees of princes, the reception of embassadors, &c. Master of ceremonies, an officer who superintends the reception of embassadors. A person who regulates the forms to be observed by the company or attendants on a public occasion.
CER'E-O-LITE, n. [L. cera, wax, and Gr. λιθος, a stone.]
A substance which in appearance and softness resembles wax; sometimes confounded with steatite. – Cyc. Cleaveland.
CE'RE-OUS, a. [L. cereus, from cera, wax.]
Waxen; like wax. – Gayton.
CE'RES, n.
- In mythology, the inventor or goddess of corn, or rather the name of corn deified.
- The name of a planet discovered by M. Piazzi, at Palermo in Sicily, in 1801.
CE'RIN, n. [L. cera, wax.]
- A peculiar substance which precipitates on evaporation, from alcohol, which has been digested on grated cork. – Ure.
- The part of common wax which dissolves in alcohol. – Dr. John.
- A variety of the mineral Allanite.
CE-RINTH'I-ANS, n.
A set of heretics, so called from Cerinthus, one of the first heresiarchs in the church. They denied the divinity of Christ, but they held that, in his baptism, a celestial virtue descended on him in the form of a dove, by means of which he was consecrated by the Holy Spirit and made Christ. – Encyc.
CE'RITE, n. [See Cerium.]
- The silicious oxyd of cerium, a rare mineral of a pale rose red color, with a tinge of yellow. – Hally. Jameson. Cleaveland.
- A fossil shell.
CE'RI-UM, n.
A metal discovered in Sweden, in the mineral cerite, and so called from the planet Ceres. It is of a great specific gravity. Its color a grayish white, and its texture lamellar. – Dict. of Nat. Hist.
CER'NU-OUS, a. [L. cernuus.]
In botany, having the top curved downward.
Pertaining to cerography.
CE-ROG'RA-PHIST, n.
One who is versed in or who practices cerography.
CE-ROG'RA-PHY, n. [L. cera, wax, and Gr. γραφω, to write.]
- A writing on wax.
- The art of engraving on wax, spread on a sheet of copper, from which a stereotype plate is taken.
CE-RO'MA, n.
In ancient architecture, that part of the ancient baths in which bathers used to anoint themselves with a composition of oil and wax. – Elmes.
CER'O-MAN-CY, n.
Divination by dropping melted wax in water.
CE-ROON', n. [from the Spanish.]
A bale or package made of skins.
CE-RO-PLAS'TIC, n.
In sculpture, the art of modeling or of forming models in wax. – Elmes.
CER'RI-AL, a.
Pertaining to the Cerris, or bitter oak. – Chaucer.
CER'RIS, n. [L.]
The bitter oak.
CER'TAIN, a. [cer'tin; Fr. certain; Sp. cierto; It. and Port. certo; from L. certus.]
- Sure; true; undoubted; unquestionable; that can not be denied; existing in fact and truth. The dream is certain and the interpretation sure. – Dan. ii.
- Assured in mind; having no doubts; followed by of, before a noun. However I with thee have fixed my lot, / Certain to undergo like doom of death, / Consort with thee. – Milton. To make her certain of the sad event. – Dryden.
- Unfailing; always producing the intended effect; as, we may have a certain remedy for a disease.
- Not doubtful or casual; really existing. Virtue that directs or ways Through certain dangers to uncertain praise. – Dryden.
- Stated; fixed; determinate; regular. Ye shall gather a certain rate every day. – Ex. xvi.
- Particular. There came a certain poor widow. – Mark xii. In the plural number, a particular part or number; some; an indefinite part, number, or quantity. “Hanani came, he and certain men of Judah.” “I mourned certain days.” – Neh. i. 2, 6. In the latter sense, it is used as a noun; as, “certain also of your own poets have said.” – Acts xvii.