Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LAT'IN, a.

Pertaining to the Latins, a people of Latium, in Italy; Roman; as, the Latin language. Latin church, the Western church; the Christian church in Italy, France, Spain and other countries where the Latin language was introduced, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern church. – Encyc.

LAT'IN, n.

1. The language of the ancient Romans.
2. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. – Ascham.

LAT'IN-ISM, n.

A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to the Latins. – Addison.

LAT'IN-IST, n.

One skilled in Latin.

LA-TIN'I-TY, n.

Purity of the Latin style or idiom; the Latin tongue.

LAT'IN-IZE, v.i.

To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin. – Dryden.

LAT'IN-IZE, v.t.

To give to foreign words Latin terminations and make them Latin. – Watts.

LAT'IN-IZ-ED, pp.

Made into Latin.

LAT'IN-IZ-ING, ppr.

Giving to foreign words Latin terminations.

LAT'IN-LY, adv.

So as to understand and write Latin. – Heylin.

LAT-I-ROS'TROUS, a. [L. latus, broad, and rostrum, beak.]

Having a broad beak, as a fowl. – Brown.

LAT'ISH, a. [from late.]

Somewhat late.

LAT'I-TAN-CY, n. [L. latitans, latito, to lie hid, from lateo. See Latent.]

The state of lying concealed; the state of lurking. – Brown.

LAT'I-TANT, a.

Lurking; lying hid; concealed. Boyle. [These words are rarely used. See Latent.]

LAT'I-TAT, n. [L. he lurks.]

A writ by which a person is summoned into the king's bench to answer, as supposing he lies concealed. – Blackstone.

LAT-I-TA'TION, n.

A lying in concealment.

LAT'I-TUDE, n. [Fr. from L. latitudo, breadth; latus, broad; W. llyd, breadth.]

1. Breadth; width; extent from side to side. – Wotton.
2. Room; space. – Locke. [In the foregoing senses, little used.]
3. In astronomy, the distance of a star north or south of the ecliptic.
4. In geography, the distance of any place on the globe, north or south of the equator. Boston is situated in the forty-third degree of north latitude.
5. Extent of meaning or construction; indefinite acceptation. The words will not bear this latitude of construction.
6. Extent of deviation from a settled point; freedom from rules or limits; laxity. In human actions, there are no degrees and precise natural limits described, but a latitude is indulged. – Taylor.
7. Extent. I pretend not to treat of them in their full latitude. – Locke.

LAT-I-TU'DIN-AL, a.

Pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude. – Gregory.

LAT-I-TU-DIN-A'RI-AN, a. [Fr. latitudinaire.]

Not restrained; not confined by precise limits; free; thinking or acting at large; as, latitudinarian opinions or doctrines.

LAT-I-TU-DIN-A'RI-AN, n.

1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.
2. In the Episcopal church, one who denies or doubts the divine right or origin of episcopacy, though he admits its expediency.
3. In theology, one who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy; or one who indulges a latitude of thinking and interpretation; a moderate man.

LAT-I-TU-DIN-A'RI-AN-ISM, n.

1. Freedom or liberality of opinion, particularly in theology. – Ch. Obs.
2. Indifference to religion. – W. Jones.

LAT-I-TU'DIN-OUS, a.

Having latitude, or large extent.

LA'TRANT, a. [L. latro, to bark.]

Barking. – Tickell.

LA'TRATE, v.i.

To bark as a dog. [Not used.]

LA-TRA'TION, n.

A barking. [Not used.]