isthmian Isthmian games, games in honor of Poseidon anciently celebrated in the Isthmian sanctuary, on the Isthmus of Corinth, constituting the second in importance of the four great national festivals of Greece. They took place in April and May in the first and third years of each Olympiad, and included the same contests as the Olympian games, athletic, poetic, and musical. The victors were crowned with wreaths of pine-leaves, which were the only prizes.-Isthmian sanctuary, a sacred precinct on the northeast shore of the Isthmus of Corinth, inclosed by walls and containing rich temples, altars, a theater, a stadium, and many other public and private monuments, within which the Isthmian games were celebrated from time immemorial until the prevalence of the Christian religion. isthmiate (ist'- or is'mi-at), a. [< isthmus + -i-ate.] In zoöl., having a narrow part connecting two broader portions.-Isthmiate thorax, in Coleoptera, a thorax having a narrowed space between the prothorax and the elytra, either in consequence of the former being constricted behind, or because the anterior part of the mesothorax is not covered by the prothorax. = = isthmitis (ist- or is-mi'tis), n. [NL., < isthmus, There want not good Geographers who hold that this Island was tied to France at first... by an Isthmos or neck of land 'twixt Dover and Bullen. Howell, Pref. to Cotgrave's French Dict. (ed. 1673). 2. In bot. and zool., some connecting part or organ, especially when narrow or joining parts larger than itself.-3. The contracted passage from the cavity of the mouth into that of the pharynx. It is bounded above by the pendulous veil of the palate and uvala, at the sides by the pillars of the 3201 of an object (previously mentioned, or understood from the How is it with our general? Shak., Cor., v. 5. (b) As the nominative of an impersonal verb or verb used Pope. 'Tis these that gave the great Apollo spoils. Milton, L'Allegro, 1. 33. Pope, Moral Essays, ii. 15. That which groweth of it [now its] own accord. It knighthood shall do worse. 2. In children's games, that player who is called It. A common abbreviation of Italian. "Twas then we luvit ilk ither weel. Motherwell, Jeanie Morrison. itabirite (i-tab'i-rit), n. [< Itabira, a place ular iron ore. cism. fauces, and below by the base of the tongue. More fully -istical. [-istic + -al.] Same as -istic. Istiophorus (is-ti-of'o-rus), n. See Histiophorus, 1 and 2. The Gothic diphthong represents the itacistic pronunci- 1 = Istiurus (is-ti-u'rus), n. See Histiurus, 1. The Istrian shore has lost its beauty, though the Istrian hills, now and then capped by a hill-side town, and the higher mountains beyond them, tell us something of the character of the inland scenery. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 98. II. n. A native or an inhabitant of Istria. The Istrians are Slavs and Italians, the former being much the more numerous. it (it), pron. [< ME. it, yt, hit, hyt, <AS. hit (gen. his, dat. him), neut. of he, he: see he1.] 1. A personal pronoun, of the third person and neuter gender, corresponding to the masculine he and the feminine she, and having the same plural forms, they, their, them. (a) A substitute for the name Italian Architecture.-Church of Sta. Maria della Salute, Venice; Among the rare merits of this architecture are its liberal and pretentious vulgarity and coarseness. See Lombard chord of the extreme sixth, containing the major third of the bass. See figure.- Italian string, a superior kind of catgut violin-string, made in Italy.-Italian warehouse, a shop where Italian groceries and fruits are sold.Italian-warehouseman, a dealer in fine groceries, including macaroni, vermicelli, dried fruits, olive-oil, etc. Italian II. n. 1. A native of Italy, or one of the Italian race.-2. The language spoken by the inhabitants of Italy, whether the literary speech or one of the popular dialects. His name's Gonzago; the story is extant, and writ in Abbreviated It., Ital. man Italianated, I will plainlie tell him. All his words, His lookes, his oathes, are all ridiculous, Dekker, Old Fortunatus. An Englishman Italianate Is a devil incarnate. 3202 It [the Etruscan language] has even quite recently Italicism (i-tal'i-sizm), n. [< Italic + -ism.] An tion. The italicisation is mine. The Academy, March 17, 1888, p. 184. common. Italiot, Italiote (i-tal'i-ot, -ot), n. and a. [< Gr. Quoted in S. Clark's Examples (1670). 'Irahirns, Irahia, Italy: see Italian.] I. n. In anc. hist., an Italian Greek; a person of Greek birth or descent living in Italy; an inhabitant of Magna Græcia. With this French page and Italianate serving-man was our young landlord only waited on. Middleton, Father Hubbard's Tales. He found the old minister from Haddam East Village Italianate outwardly in almost ludicrous degree. Howells, Indian Summer, p. 173. Italianisation, Italianise, etc. See Italianization, etc. Italianism (i-tal 'yan-izm), n. [< Italian + -ism.] A word, phrase, idiom, or manner peculiar to the Italians; Italian spirit, principles, or taste. It was, perhaps, an ungracious thing to be critical, among The "Venetian," in spite of its peculiar Italianity, has II. a. In anc. hist., of or belonging to the Greek Italisht, a. [< Ital(ic) + -ish. Cf. Italic.] All this is true, though the feat handling thereof be al- Numerous fragments of ornaments and animals in the Italianization (i-tal"yan-i-za'shon), n. [<Ital- atrium of the church of Santa Maria della Valle. The border dialects, being numerous and very diverse Italianize (i-tal'yan-iz), v.; pret. and pp. Ital- Also spelled Italianise. = = = The Latin was the only Italic dialect known to the Middle Ages which possessed an alphabetic system. G. P. Marsh, Hist. Eng. Lang., p. 15. 2. Of or pertaining to modern Italy. [Rare.] All things of this world are as unpleasant as the lees of vinegar to a tongue filled with the spirit of high Italic wines. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 65. Specifically-(a) In arch., same as Composite, 3. (b) l. c. or cap.] Of Italian origin: designating a style of printing. types the lines of which slope toward the right (thus, italic), used for emphasis and other distinctive purposes. The italic character was first made and shown in type by Aldus Manutius, a notable printer of Venice, in an edition of Virgil, 1501, and by him dedicated to Italy. The first italic had upright capitals, but later French type-founders inclined them to the same angle as the small letters. In manuscript italic is indicated by underscoring the words with a single line.-Italic school of philosophy, Same as Pythagorean school of philosophy (which see, under Pythagorean).-Italic version of the Bible, or Itala, a translation of the Bible into Latin, based upon a still older version, called the Old Latin, and made probably in the time of Augustine (A. D. 354-430). The corruption of the text of this and the other Latin versions led to the revision called the Vulgate, the work of Jerome. See Vulgate. II. n. [l. c.] In printing, an italic letter or type: usually in the plural: as, this is to be printed in italics. Abbreviated ital. The italics are yours, but I adopt them with concurrent emphasis. N. A. Rev., CXLIII. 22. ita-palm (it'ä-päm), n. [Kita, a S. Amer. name, cord; the fermented sap yields a palm-wine; and the in- itch (ich), v. i. [< ME. icchen, iken, ykyn, ear- Oure body wole icche, oure bonis wole ake, Mine eyes do itch; -ite This itch of book-making... seems no less the prevailing disorder of England than of France. Goldsmith, Criticisms. There is a spice of the scoundrel in most of our literary men; an itch to filch and detract in the midst of fair speaking and festivity. Landor. Bakers', bricklayers', grocers', etc., itch. See the qual- to itch. It [eczema] is chiefly obnoxious through its itching. The itching of Scribblers was the scab of the Time. All fools have still an itching to deride, One rubs his itchless elbow, shrugs and laughs. Quarles, Emblems, i. 9. itch-mite (ich'mit), n. A mite which burrows in the skin, and causes the disease called the itch or scabies. There are several species, having similartraits, and all belonging to the order Acarida, Acaridea, or Acarina, of the class Arachnida. The genuine itch-mite Under Side of Itch-mite (Sarcoptes scabiei), highly magnified." is Sarcoptes scabiei. The female is about of an inch long, the male much smaller; the body is oval or rounded, without eyes, and with 4 pairs of short 3-jointed legs, the anterior 2 pairs ending in a suckingdisk, the posterior 2 pairs ending, in the female, in a long filament. Its favorite haunts are between the fingers, the flexor side of the wrists and elbows, and Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 80. itchy (ich'i), a. [<itch+y1.] 1. Character- Doth that bode weeping? Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself Shak., J. C., iv. 3, 10. The Itch, the Murrein, and Alcides-grief, Sow all the Athenian bosoms; and their crop Be general leprosy ! Shak., T. of A., iv. 1, 28. Hence-3. An uneasy longing or propensity; Italican (i-tal'i-kan), a. [< Italic + -an.] Of a teasing or tingling desire: as, an itch for or pertaining to ancient Italy. [Rare.] praise; an itch for scribbling. = Cowper, Task, iv. 582. 2. Having the itch: as, an itchy beggar. -ite1. [=F. -i, -it, m., -ite, f., Sp. Pg. It. -ito, m., -ita, f., L. -itus, -itus, m., -ita, -ita, f., -itum, -itum, n., term. of the pp. of verbs in -ere, -ĕre, or -ire, being the pp. suffix -tus (= E. -d2, -ed2), with a preceding original or supplied vowel: see -atel, -ed2.] A termination of some English adjectives and nouns from adjectives, and of some verbs, derived from the Latin, as in apposite, composite, opposite, exquisite, requisite, erudite, recondite, etc. Its use in verbs, as in expedite, extradite, ignite, unite, and in nouns not directly from adjectives, as in granite, is less common. When the vowel is short, the termination is often merely it, as in deposit, reposit, posit, merit, inhabit, prohibit, etc. It is not used or felt as an English formative. In a few words, as ap petite, audit, from Latin nouns of the fourth declension, no adjective form intervenes. -ite2. [<F. -ite= Sp. Pg. It. -ita, < L. -ita, -ites, <Gr. -irns, fem. -iris, an adj. suffix, 'of the nature of,' 'like,' used esp. in patrial and mineral names.] A suffix of Greek origin, indicating origin or derivation from, or immediate relation with, the person or thing signified by the noun to which it is attached. Specifically-(a) Noting a native or resident of a place: as, Stagyrite, a na -ite tive of Stageira; Sybarite, a native of Sybaris, etc. (b) Noting a descendant of a person or member of a family or tribe, as Canaanite, Israelite, Moabite, Hittite, etc. (c) Noting a disciple, adherent, or follower of a person, a doctrine, a class, an order, etc., as Rechabite, Carmelite, Campbellite, Hicksite, etc., or (with it) Jesuit. (d) In mineral., noting rocks, minerals, or any natural chemical compound or mechanical aggregation of substances, as ammonite, calcite, dolomite, quartzite, etc. It has no connection with lite (which see). (e) In chem., denoting a salt of an acid the name of which ends in the suffix -ous, and which contains a relatively smaller proportion of oxygen, as distinguished from -ale, denoting a salt of an acid the name of which ends in the suffix -ic, and which contains a relatively larger proportion of oxygen: thus, a sulphite is a salt of sulphurous acid, and a sulphate one formed from sulphuric acid. (f) In anat. and zool., noting that which is part and parcel or a necessary component of any part or organ: as, sternite, a piece or segment of the sternum; pleurite, tergite, podite, a part of the side, back, leg. (g) In paleon, and paleobot., noting fossilization or petrifaction: as, ichnite, trilobite. Compare def. (d). Itea (it'e-a), n. [NL. (Linnæus), <irka, a willow, AS. withig, a willow, E. withe, withy, a twig: see withe, withy.] A small genus of plants of the natural order Saxifragacea, tribe Escallonica. The petals are linear, the ovary is half-superior and 2-celled, the styles are 2-parted, and the capsule is a C Itea Virginica. 1, branch with flowers; 2, branch with fruit. a, flower; b, fruit; c, flower with petals removed, showing stamens and pistils. 2-beaked. They are trees or shrubs, with alternate oblong or lanceolate leaves, and usually simple terminal or axillary racemes of small but rather handsome white flowers. Five species are known, of which one, I. Virginica, call ed the Virginia willow, is common in the eastern United States from New Jersey southward. The others are natives of Japan, China, Java, and the Himalayas. item (i'tem), adv. [<ME. item (=F. Sp. Pg. It. item), used as L., L. item, just so, likewise, also, is, he, that, +-tem, a demonstrative suffix.] Also: a word used in introducing the separate articles of an enumeration, as the separate clauses or details of a will or the particular parts of an account or list of things. [Obsolete or archaic.] Item, betwene the Mount Syon and the Temple of Salomon is the place where oure Lord reysed the Mayden in hire Fadres Hows. Mandeville, Travels, p. 92. Speed [reads]. Imprimis, "She can milk." Item, "She brews good ale." Item, "She can sew." Shak., T. G. of V., iii. 1, 304. Item, from Mr. Acres, for carrying divers letters which I never delivered - two guineas, and a pair of buckles.Item, from Sir Lucius O'Trigger, three crowns, two gold pocket-pieces, and a silver snuff-box. Sheridan, The Rivals, i. 2. item (i'tem), n. [= F. Pg. item, n., < L. item, also, as used before the separate articles of an enumeration: see item, adv.] 1. An article; a separate particular; a single detail of any kind: as, the account consists of many items. I could then have looked on him without the help of admiration; though the catalogue of his endowments had been tabled by his side, and I to peruse him by items. Shak., Cymbeline, i. 5, 7. All these items added together form a vast sum of discontent. Marryat, Snarleyyow, I. xviii. 2. An intimation; a reminder; a hint. [Obsolete or local.] How comes he then like a thief in the night, when he gives an item of his coming? Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 46. My uncle took notice that Sir Charles had said he guessed at the writer of the note. He wished he would give him an item, as he called it, whom he thought of. Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison, VI. 292. This word is used among Southern gamblers to imply information of what cards may be in a partner's or an opponent's hands: this is called "giving item." Bartlett, Americanisms. 3203 3. A trick; fancy; caprice. [Prov. Eng.] 4. A paragraph in a newspaper; a scrap of news. [Colloq.] Otis is item man and reporter for the "Clarion." Kimball, Was He Successful? p. 129. City item. See city, a. item (i'tem), v. t. [< item, n.] To make a note or memorandum of. You see I can item it. Steele, Tender Husband, v. 1. Addison, The Drummer, iii. 1. itemize (i'tem-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. itemized, ppr. itemizing. [item +-ize.] To state by items; give the items or particulars of: as, to itemize an account. Eschylus paints these conclusions with a big brush. ... Shelley itemizes them. S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 98. The excellent character of these bonds will appear from an inspection of the itemized schedule. Amer. Hebrew, XXXVIII. 56. itemizer (i'tem-i-zèr), n. One who collects and furnishes items for a newspaper. [U. S.] Congregationalist, Sept. 21, 1860. An itemizer of the "Adams Transcript." The Lord Chamberlain, by his iter, or circuit of visita. tion, maintained a common standard of right and duties in all burghs. Encyc. Brit., IV. 64. Upon the occasion of an iter, or eyre, in Kent,... fifty county. marks were granted to the king by assent of the whole L. C. Pike, Pref. to reprint of Year-Books 11 and 12, [Edward III. 2. [NL.] In anat., a passageway in the body; specifically, without qualifying terms, the aqueduct of Sylvius, or iter a tertio ad quartum ventriculum.-Iter ad infundibulum, the passage from the third ventricle of the brain downward into the infundibulum.-Iter chordæ anterius, the aperture of exit of the chorda tympani nerve from the cavity of the tympanum into the canal of Huguier.-Iter chordæ posterius, the aperture of entrance of the chorda tym. pani nerve into the cavity of the tympanum. iter2t, v. t. [< OF. iterer, < L. iterare, repeat: see iterate.] To renew. Halliwell. iterable (it'e-ra-bl), a. [< LL. iterabilis, that may be repeated, L. iterare, repeat: see iterate.] Capable of being iterated or repeated. Sir T. Browne, Miscellanies, p. 178. iteral (i'te-ral), a. [<iter1 +-al.] Pertaining to the iter of the brain. iterance (it'e-rans), n. [< iteran(t) + -ce.] Iteration. [Rare.] What needs this iterance, woman? Shak., Othello, v. 2, 150. Say thou dost love me, love me, love me; toll The silver iterance. Mrs. Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, xxi. iterancy (it'e-ran-si), n. Same as iterance. iterant (it'e-rant), a. [< L. iterare, repeat: see iterate.] = Ithuriel's-spear and over again; repetition; repeated utterance or occurrence. Your figure that worketh by iteration or repetition of one word or clause doth much alter and affect the eare and also the mynde of the hearer. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 165. O, thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 2, 101. Like echoes from beyond a hollow, came Her sicklier iteration. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. The pestilent iteration of crackers and pistols at one's elbow is maddening. D. G. Mitchell, Bound Together (Old Fourth). 2. In math., the repetition of an operation upon the product of that operation.-Analytical iteration, the iteration of the operation which produces an iterative (it'e-ra-tiv), a. [= F. itératif Sp. analytical function. Pg. It. iterativo, < LL. iterativus, serving to repeat (said of iterative verbs), L. iterare, pp. iteratus, repeat: see iterate.] 1. Repeating; repetitious. Spenser... found the ottava rima too monotonously iterative. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 178. 2. In gram., frequentative, as some verbs.Iterative function, in math., a function which is the result of successive operations with the same operator. Ithacan (ith'a-kan), a. and n. [< L. Ithacus, Ithacan,< Ithaca, Gr. '10ákn, Ithaca.] I. a. Of or belonging to Ithaca, one of the Ionian Islands, noted in Greek mythology as the home of Odysseus or Ulysses. II. n. An inhabitant of Ithaca. Ithacensian (ith-a-sen'si-an), a. [< L. Ithacensis, Ithacan, Ithaca, Ithaca: see Ithacan.] Ithacan. All the ladies, each at each, Like the Ithacensian suitors in old time, Stared with great eyes. Tennyson, Princess, iv. Ithaginis (i-thaj'i-nis), n. [NL. (Wagler, 1832; also written Itaginis, Reichenbach, 1849; and correctly Ithagenes, Agassiz), < Gr. ibayevýs, Epic layers, of legitimate birth, genuine, is, straight, true,+yévos, birth, race.] A notable genus of alpine Asiatic gallinaceous birds, the blood-pheasants, placed with the fran colins in the family Tetraonida, and also in the Phasianide with the true pheasants. The tarsus of the male has several spurs, sometimes as many as five. The best-known species, I. cruentus, or cruentis, or cruentatus, inhabits the Himalayas at an altitude of iteran(t-)s, ppr. of from 10,000 to 14,000 feet, and goes in flocks. It keeps near forests, and in winter burrows in the snow. Other Repeating. species are I. geoffroyi and I. sinuensis. The genus was established by Wagler in 1832. = Waters, being near, make a current echo; but, being farther off, they make an iterant echo. Bacon, Nat. Hist. iterate (it'e-rat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. iterated, ppr. iterating. [L. iteratus, pp. of iterare (> It. iterare Sp. Pg. Pr. iterar: F. itérer, OF. iterer, > E. iter2, q. v.), do a second time, repeat, < iterum, again, a neut. compar. form, is, he, that: see hel.] To utter or do again; repeat: as, to iterate an advice or a demand. This full song, iterated in the closes by two Echoes. B. Jonson, Masque of Beauty. Having wiped and cleansed away the soot, I iterated the experiment. Boyle, Works, IV. 552. iteratet (it'e-rat), a. [L. iteratus, pp. of iterare, repeat.] Repeated. Wherefore we proclaim the said Frederick count Palatine, &c., guilty of high treason and iterate proscription, and of all the penalties which by law and custom are depending thereon. Wilson, James I. iteratelyt (it'e-rat-li), adv. By repetition or iteration; repeatedly. The cemeterial cells of ancient Christians and martyrs were filled with draughts of Scripture stories;... iterately affecting the portraits of Enoch, Lazarus, Jonas, and the vision of Ezekiel, as hopeful draughts, and hinting ima gery of the resurrection. Sir T. Browne, Urn-burial, iii. = ithand (i'thand), a. [Also ythand, ythen, eident, eydent, Icel. idhinn, assiduous, steady, diligent, idh, f., a doing, idh, n., a restless motion: see eddy.] Busy; diligent; plodding; constant; continual. [Scotch.] ithet, n. [ME., also ythe, uthe; < AS. yth, a wave, pl. ytha, the waves, the sea, OS. uthia, udhea OHG. undea, unda, MHG. unde, ünde, wave, water, = Icel. unnr, udhr, a wave, pl. unnir, the waves, the sea, L. unda, a wave (> ult. E. undulate, ound, abound, redound, surround, abundant, inundate, etc.), ult. akin to Gr. idup, water, and to E. water: see water.] A wave; in the plural, the waves; the sea. = On dayes and derke nightes dryuyn on the ythes, At Salame full sound thai set into hauyn. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1827. ither (iTH'er), a. and pron. A dialectal (Scotch) form of other1. Nae ither care in life ha'e I, But live, an' love my Nannie, O. Burns, Behind yon Hills. Farewell, "my rhyme composing brither!" We've been owre lang unkenn'd to ither. Burns, To William Simpson. Ithuriel's-spear (i-thu' ri-elz-sper), n. [So called in allusion to the spear of Ithuriel (Milton, P. L., iv. 810), which caused everything it touched to assume its true form.] The Cali ithyphalli, n. Plural of ithyphallus, 1. ithyphallic (ith-i-fal'ik), a. [ L. ithyphallicus, Gr. Ovpazλikós, <iðvḍaλ2os, a phallus, < ious, straight, erect, + panλós, phallus: see phallus.] 1. Pertaining to or characterized by an ithyphallus, or the ceremonies associated with its use as a religious symbol, etc. It is probable that the ithyphallic ceremonies, which the gross flattery of the degenerate Greeks sometimes employed to honor the Macedonian princes, had the same meaning. Knight, Anc. Arts and Myth. (1876), p. 98. Hence-2. Grossly indecent; obscene. An ithyphallic audacity that insults what is most sacred and decent among men. Christian Examiner. 3. In anc. pros., sung in phallic processions; specifically, noting a group of three trochees or a period containing such a group. ithyphallus (ith-i-fal'us), n. [L., < Gr. oa Zoc,ific, straight, erect, + oazós, phallus.] 1. Pl. ithyphalli (-1). In archæol., etc., an erect phallus.-2. [cap.] [NL.] In entom., a genus of weevils or curculios: same as Stenotarsus of Schönherr, which name is preoccupied in the same order. Harold, 1875. -itial. [< L. -itius, -icius, + -al.] A compound adjective termination occurring in a few words, as cardinalitial. Itieria (it-i-e'ri-ä), n. [NL. (Saporta, 1873), so called after the original collector, M. Itier.] A genus of fossil alge, of the family Laminariacea, having cartilaginous, compressed, many times dichotomously branching fronds, provided with turbinate, subglobose, probably bladdery, terminal or axillary expansions, which appear to have served as air-bladders, as in the bladder-wrack. Two species are known, from the Upper Jurassic of Orbagnoux (Ain) and Saint Mihiel (Meuse) itineracy (i-tin'e-ra-si), n. [< itinera(te) + -cy. Cf. itinerancy.] The practice or habit of traveling from place to place; the state of being in France. itinerant. The cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itineracy of the present day. Emerson, History. itinerancy (i-tin'e-ran-si), n. [< itineran(t) + -cy.] 1. The act of traveling from place to place; especially, a going about from place to place in the discharge of duty or the prosecution of business: as, the itinerancy of circuit judges or of commercial travelers.-2. Especially, in the Meth. Ch., the system of rotation governing the ministry of that church. In parts of the western United States and in England several communities are grouped into "circuits," and each "circuit" is ministered to by itinerant preachers or "circuit-riders." Methodism, with its "lay ministry" and its itinerancy, could alone afford the ministrations of religion to this overflowing population. Stevens, Hist. Methodism. itinerant (i-tin'e-rant), a. and n. [<LL. itineran(t-)s, ppr. of itinerari, travel, journey: see itinerate.] I. a. Traveling from place to place; wandering; not settled; strolling; specifically, going from place to place, especially on a circuit, in the discharge of duty: as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant judge. In the Winter and Spring time he usually rode the Circuit as a Judge Itinerant through all his Provinces, to see justice well administerd. Milton, Hist. Eng., v. I believe upon a good deal of evidence that these ancient kings were itinerant, travelling or ambulatory personages. Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 179. Itinerant bishop. See bishop. II. n. One who travels from place to place; a traveler; a wanderer; specifically, one who travels from place to place, especially on a circuit, in the discharge of duty or the pursuit of business, as an itinerant judge or preacher, or a strolling actor. Glad to turn itinerant, 3204 ing; passing from place to place, especially on a circuit: as, an itinerary judge. He did make a progress from Lincoln to the northern parts, though it was rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII. The law of England, by its circuit or itinerary courts, contains a provision for the distribution of private justice, in a great measure relieved from both these objections. Paley, Moral Philos., iv. 8. 2. Of or pertaining to a journey; specifically, pertaining to an official journey or circuit, as of a judge or preacher: as, itinerary observations.-3. Pertaining to descriptions of roads, or to a road-book: as, an itinerary unit.-Itinerary column. See column, 1. -ive itself (it-self'), pron. [Early mod. E. also itselfe; ME. it self, it selve, being it with the agreeing adj. self: see it and self, and himself.] The neuter pronoun corresponding to himself, herself. (See himself.) Its emphatic and reflexive uses are like those of himself. The course of heaven, and fate itself, in this, Will Cæsar cross. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. You are gentle; he is gentleness itself. Beau. and Fl., Knight of Malta, ii. 5. Here doth the river divide itselfe into 3 or 4 convenient branches. Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 118. Mahometism hath dispersed itself over almost one half of the huge Continent of Asia. Howell, Letters, ii. 10. Lande argillose, and not cley by it selve, Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 49. This letter being too long for the present paper, I intend to print it by itself very suddenly. Steele, Tatler, No. 164. II. n.; pl. itineraries (-riz). 1. A plan of By itself, alone; apart; separately from anything else. travel; a list of places to be included in a journey, with means of transit and any other desired details: as, to make out an itinerary of travel, or of the routes of a country or region, In and by itself, in or of itself, separately considered; a proposed tour.-2. An account of a line of of the places and points of interest, etc.; a places, in successive order: as, an itinerary work containing a description of routes and from Paris to Rome, or of France or Italy; Antonine's "Itinerary of the Roman Empire." Also itinerarium. Now Habassia, according to the Itineraries of the observingst Travelers in those Parts, is thought to be, in respective Magnitude, as big as Germany, Spain France, and Italy conjunctly. Howell, Letters, ii. 9. The Rudge Cup, found in Wiltshire and preserved at Alnwick Castle, . contains, engraved in bronze, an itinerary along some Roman stations in the north of England. Encyc. Brit., XIII. 130. 3. An itinerant journey; a regular course of travel; a tour of observation or exploration. It [Mr. Poncet's journey] was the first intelligible itinerary made through these deserts. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 474. 4. In the Rom. Cath. Ch., a form of prayer for the use of the clergy when setting out on a journey: generally placed at the end of the breviary. It consists of the canticle Benedictus, with an antiphon, preces, and two collects. -5t. One who journeys from place to place. [Rare.] A few months later Bradford was appointed one of the six chaplains of Edward VI., chosen to be itineraries, to preach sound doctrine in all the remotest parts of the kingdom." Biog. Notice in Bradford's Works (Parker (Soc., 1853), II. xxv. itinerate (i-tin'e-rat), v. i.; pret. and pp. itinerated, ppr. itinerating. [<LL. itineratus, pp. of itinerari, go on a journey, travel, journey, L. iter, rarely itiner (stem itiner-, rarely iter-), a going away, journey, march, road: see iter.] To travel from place to place, as in the prosecution of business, or for the purpose of holding court or of preaching; journey in a regu lar course. The Bedford meeting had at this time its regular minister, whose name was John Burton; so that what Bunyan received was a roving commission to itinerate in the vil lages round about. Southey, Bunyan, p. 38. There is reason to believe that the English Kings itinerated in the same way and mainly for the same purpose. Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 181. itineration (i-tin-e-ra'shon), n. [< ML. *itineratio(n-), < itinerari, journey: see itinerate.] A journey from place to place; a tour of action or observation. [Rare.] A great change has come over this part since last year, owing, I suspect, to the itinerations which Dr. Caldwell S. Rivington, Madras (1876). has undertaken. -ition. [L. -itio(n-), in nouns from a pp. in itus: see -ite1 and -ion, and -tion.] A compound noun termination, as in expedition, extradition, etc., being -tion with a preceding original or formative vowel, or in other words, -itel + -ion. See ite1, -ion, -tion. -itious. [-iti(on) + -ous, equiv. to -itel + -ous: see words with this termination.] A compound adjective termination occurring in adjectives associated with nouns in -ition, as expeditious, etc. See -ition, -tious. -itis. [NL., etc., -itis, < L. -itis, <Gr. -iris, fem., associated with -irns, masc., term. of adjectives (which are often used as nouns), 'of the nature of,' 'like,' etc.: see -ite2.] A termination used in modern pathological nomenclature to signify 'inflammation" of the part indicated, as in bronchitis, otitis, conjunctivitis, stomatitis, enteritis, etc. itinerantly (i-tin'e-rant-li), adv. In an itinerant, unsettled, or wandering manner. itinerarium (i-tin-e-ra'ri-um), n.; pl. itineraria (-a). [LL. (in def. 2, ML.): see itinerary.] 1. Same as itinerary, 2.-2. A portable altar. -itive. [L. -itivus, in adjectives from a pp. in itinerary (i-tin'e-ra-ri), a. and n. [= F. itiné-~-itus: see -ite1 and -ive.] A compound adjective raire = Sp. Pg. It. itinerario, < LL. itinerarius, pertaining to a journey, neut. itinerarium, an account of a journey, a road-book, <iter (itinér-), a way, journey: see itinerate.] I. a. 1. Travel termination of Latin origin, as in definitive, infinitive, fugitive. See -itel and -ive. its (its). The possessive case of the neuter pronoun it. See it, 1 (e), and he1, I., C (b). in its own nature; independently of other things. enough for prose, and stately enough for verse, hath long time been counted most bare and barren of both. Our Mother tongue, which truelie of it selfe is both full Spenser, To Mayster Gabriel Haruey. To be on land after three months at sea is of itself a great change. Macaulay, Life and Letters, I. 322. A false theory... that what a thing is, it is in itself, apart from all relation to other things or the mind. E. Caird, Hegel, p. 10. In and for itself. See in1. = ittria, n. See yttria. ittrium, n. See yttrium. iturite-fiber (it'u-rit-fi'bėr), n. [<itur, native name, +-ite + fiber.] The tough bark of the Maranta obliqua, a plant of British Guiana. It is used by the Indians for making baskets. -ity. [< F. -ité, OF. -ete, -eteit, etc., Sp. -idad 4-ta(t-)s, acc.-itatem, being the common abstract Pg. -idade = It. -ità, also -itate, -itade, < L. formative -ta(t-)s (> E. -ty) with a preceding orig. or supplied vowel: see -ty2.] A common termination of nouns of Latin origin or formed after Latin analogy, from adjectives, properly from adjectives of Latin origin or type, as in activity, civility, suavity, etc., but also in some words from adjectives not of Latin origin or type, as in jollity. The suffix is properly -ty, the preceding vowel belonging originally to the adjective. See -ty2. itze boot, itzebut, itzibut, n. iulant (i-u'lan), a. [L. iulus, down, a catkin (< Gr. iovλoc, down, the down on plants, also, like ovos, a corn-sheaf; cf. ovλos, woolly), + -an.] Downy; soft like down. See bu. We two were in acquaintance long ago, Before our chins were worth iulan down. Middleton, Changeling, i. 1. Iva (i'vä), n. [NL.: see iry2.] 1. A specific name of the ground-pine Ajuga Iva or A. Chamapitys.-2. [So named by Linnæus as resembling the ground-pine Ajuga Iva in smell.] A small genus of composite plants, of the tribe Helianthoidea, type of the old tribe Irea. They are herbs or shrubs with entire dentate or dissected leaves, at least the lower ones opposite, and small spicately, racemosely, or paniculately disposed or scattered and commonly nodding heads, which incline to be polygamo-dicecious through abortion of the ovaries. Seven or eight species are known, from North and South America and the West Indies. The maritime species, particularly I. frutescens, are called marsh-elder or high-water shrub. ivaarite (iv-a-ä'rīt), n. [< Ivaara (see def.) +-ite2.] A mineral from Ivaara in Finland, resembling and perhaps identical with schorlomite. ivelt, n. An obsolete form of ivy1. See iry2. ive2t, n. Sp. -ive. [ME. -ive, if = OF. if, m., -ive, f., : Pg. It. -ivo, m., iva, f., < L. -ivus, m., -iva, f., -ivum, neut., a common term. of adjectives formed from verbs, either from the inf. stem, as in gradivus, or from the perfect-participle stem, as in activus, active, passirus, passive, relativus, relative, etc., the sense being nearly equiv. to that of a present participle, as in the examples cited, or instrumental, 'serving to do' so and so, as in nominativus, serving to name, etc.] A termination of Latin origin, forming adjectives from verbs, meaning 'doing' so and so, or 'serving to do' so and so, or otherwise noting an adjective status, as in active, acting, passive, suffering, demonstrative, serving to show, formative, serving to form, purgative, serving to purge, adoptive, collective, festive, furtive, native, infinitive, relative, etc. Many such adjectives are also used as nouns, as in some of the examples cited. The termination is commonly attached in Latin to the past participle stem in -at-, -et-, -it-, -8-, and hence appears in English most frequently in such = connections, -ative, itive (these being also usable as English formatives), -sive, rarely etive. The associated noun is in iveness (activeness, etc.) or -ivity (activity, etc.). Iveæ (i've-e), n. pl. [NL. (A. P. de Candolle, 1836), Iva-ea.] A former tribe of composite plants, typified by the genus Iva, which is now referred to the tribe Helianthoidea. Also Ivacea. ivelt, a. and n. A Middle English form of evill. 3205 One do I personate of Lord Timon s frame, Ivory barnacle, Balanus eburneus.-Ivory gate. See Reclined his languid head. Shelley, Alastor. ivint, n. See iven. ivoried (i'vo-rid), a. [< ivory1 + -ed2.] 1. Colored and finished to resemble ivory: said of cardboard, wood, and other materials.-2. Furnished with teeth. [Rare.] My teeth demand a constant dentist, While he is ivoried like an elephant. ivorist (i'vo-rist), n. [< ivory1 + -ist.] A er in ivory. The names of famous Japanese ivorists of the eighteenth -ivorous. See -vorous. < OF. ivurie, ivorie, later ivoire, F. ivoire = lica americana. March. [Jamaica.] There were different coloured hair powders. The black J. Ashton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, I. 146. Ivory-gull (Larus eburneus). also ivore, yvore, ivoure, ivere, yvere, yver, evour, ivory-brown (i'vo-ri-broun'), n. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 605, black feet, technically called Larus eburneus, ivory-nut (i'vo-ri-nut), n. The seed of Phytele- The tree which Lydgate, Rawlinson MS., f. 34. (Halliwell.) ivory-porcelain (i'vo-ri-pōrs lan), n. In ceram., There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory. Shak., M. of V., iii. 1, 42. 2. An object made of ivory. Saints represented in Byzantine mosaics and ivories. a fine ware with an ivory-white glaze, manu- C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, Int., p. xiii. for similar purposes, but is more decorative be3. pl. Teeth. [Humorous.] The close-cropped bullet skull, the swarthy tint, the grinning ivories, the penthouse ears, and twinkling little eyes of the immortal governor of Barataria. G. A. Sala, Dutch Pictures, Shadow of a young Dutch [Painter. Artificial ivory, a compound of caoutchouc, sulphur, and some white material, such as gypsum, pipe-clay, or oxid of zinc.-Brain ivory, the substance of the otolites or ear-stones of fishes. See otolite.-Fossil ivory. See fossil.-Green ivory. See the extract. When first cut it [African ivory] is semi-transparent and of a warm colour; in this state it is called green ivory, and as it dries it becomes much lighter in color and more Encyc. Brit., XIII. 522. opaque. Vegetable ivory. See ivory-nut. Then down she layd her ivory combe, Fair Margaret and Sweet William (Child's Ballads, II. 141). cause of the glaze. purpose. ivorytype (i'vo-ri-tip), n. [< ivory1+ type.] In ivy-gum the white would appear as a lemon-yellow cooler than gamboge; but the handsomest ivory-yellow is a little whiter. ivourt, ivouret, n. Middle English forms of ivory. ivrayt, n. [< F. ivraie (= Pr. abriaga, drunking quality of the seeds), L. ebriacus, drunken, enness) (in allusion to the supposed intoxicat ebrius, drunken: see ebrious.] The darnel, Lolium temulentum. also ivie, ive; ME. ivy, < AS. ifig, ivy; early ivyl (i'vi), n.; pl. ivies (i'viz). [Early mod. E. deriv. form, OHG. ebawi, ebahewi, MHG. ebehöu, mod. E. also iven, etc. (see iven), AS. ifegn, ivy; = OHG. ebah, MHG. ebich, ivy; also in a ephou, epföu, G. epheu, ivy. The G. forms appar. simulate G. heu, hay, and are also confused with the forms of eppich (OHG. ephi, etc.), parsley, in mod. G. also ivy, < L. apium, parsley.] An epiphytic climbing plant of the genus Hedera Ivy (Hedera Helix). a, flower; b, fruit; c, leaf and aerial roots of young plant. (H. Helix), natural order Araliacea, and the Where the vvine is neat, ther needeth no Iuie-bush. of chrome-yellow and green in these proportions without ivy-gum (i'vi-gum), n. See gum2. |