(infant), matri- (mother), mariti(husband), parri- (parent), regi(king), sorori- (sister), sui- (self), tyranni- (tyrant), uxori- (wife), vaticide, prophet-slayer; adj. in -al. Excise, to cut out surgically; to impose a duty on manufactured articles; lit. to cut a portion out of the thing manufactured; concise, -ness; incise, to cut surgically; -sion; incisors, the cutting teeth; precise; lit. having everything unnecessary cut away before. CAEREMONIA, religious worship; ceremony, nious, -nial; one of the several etymologies of this word is the name of the Tuscan town Caere, in which the Roman "sacred things" were safely kept during the Gallic invasion B.C. 390. The Caerites ever afterwards enjoyed peculiar privileges.

CALENDAE, calends, the first or name-day of the Roman month, (from calare, and Gr. kalein, to call, name,) calendar, intercalate, -tion, -ary. Cliens, a client, one who calls on a patron, a dependent on a patrician in Rome. From Gr. kalein, comes ecclesia, the Athenian public assembly, applied by the Christians to their church assemblies. CALOR, heat; caloric, -rific, cauldron.

CALX, limestone; calculus, dim., a pebble; calcine, to reduce to powder, by burning, -nation; chalk; calcareous; calculate, to compute, properly by means of pebbles or counters, in the mode practised by the Romans and the Chinese.

CALX, the heel, recalcitrate, kick (?) inculcate to trample, secondarily to enjoin instruction. CAMPUS, camp; de;, encamp; campaign, champaign; scamper, (Fr. echapper, i.e., escamper ; Low. Lat. excampere, to run from the field of battle; escape; scamp?) champion; Campea

dor, the epithet of the Cid in the Spanish ballads.

CANDERE, to glow; candidus, glowing white; obs., to burn; comp. cendere, census, burned; incandescence; candour, ingenuousness, purity (whiteness) of mind; candid; candidate. Roman applicants for offices were dressed in white togas, to signify a profession of purity of intention; incendiary; incense, v. and n., censor; candle, kindle.

CANERE, to sing; cantus, singing; comp. cinère, centum; carmen (Fr. charme), a song; cant, "sing song" phraseology of any art or profession; canto, cantata, descant, incantation, recant, canticle; accent, precentor; vaticinate, ratiocination, medicine, (sung spells were supposed to have a healing or soothing influence, Virg. Eclog. vii. 69 ;) through Fr. chant, enchant, chanticleer (chant à-clair, the singer at dawn, a cock); chantry, in Chaucer, an endowment for payment of a priest to sing mass; chantress, Milton; charm, a magic song; concert, carol. CANIS, a dog; canine, kennel. Caniculus, (a star.) CANNA, a reed;

cane; canalis, canal, channel; cannon. CAPER, a he-goat; caper, to leap like a goat; capriole, caprice (through It.); Capella and Capricorn, constellations. CAPERE, to take, catch; captus, taken; comp. cipere, ceptus, (in Fr. con-, recevoir ;) cupere, to desire to take; in Eng. the derivatives appear with the forms cap, capt, cip, cept, ceire, ceit, ceipt, cup; captor, -tive, -ture, -tion (in Scotch law), able, -acious, acity, acitate, -tivate; capsule (a cffer); chapel, chaplain, probably from capsella, the box in which the relics of the martyrs were kept; con-, de-, per-, receive; nouns in -ception; adj. in -ceptive, -ceptible, and

-ceivable; conceit, deceit, receipt; accept, -ation, -able, -ance, -or; except, -tion, -tious; susceptible; precept, or; receptacle; intercept; emancipate; manciple; municipal; anticipate: participate; participle; in-, per-, recipient; principal; recipe; reciprocal; occupy, -ation; cupidity; Cupid; concupiscence, covet, recover; coffin (?); cap, with its varieties, constitutes another of the original syllables of language; and is the vehicle of all ideas derived from that of seizing with the hand; the Hebrew letter kaph means the hand. CAPUT, Gr. kephǎle (the head), cap (cap-à-pié, head to foot), cape, captain, capitulary, capitulate, recapitulate, decapitate, capital, Capitol, occiput, -pital; precipice, bicipital, precipitate, -tation, -tate, adj. ; (precipitant, poet.); cop or cope, copestone; capuchin, an order of friars, denominated from the capuce or hood they wore; through Fr. chapiter, pillar-head, 1 Kings vii. 30; chapter, chaplet; through Fr. chef, chief, chieftain, kerchief, lit. head-covering; achieve, lit. to reach the head; from capillus, hair of the head (Fr. cheveux), capillary, dishevel; see Pilus.

CARBO, coal, carbonic, carbonaceous; carbuncle; carbonari, Italian banditti composed of charcoal burners; to char; carbonado, to broil, to cut. CARO, flesh, carnal, -nivorous; incarnate; carnation, a flesh-coloured flower; carnelian, written cornelian, a flesh-coloured stone; carnage, carcass (from cadere); carnival, lit farewell to flesh, a festival before the commencement of Lent; incarnadine, Shakesp. Macbeth; cannibal, (?) connected by some with canis, by others supposed to be a corruption of Carib,--the West India Islanders were accused of cannibalism;

carrion; cartilage. Crassus, thick, literally having much flesh; crass, obs.; through Fr. gross, engross. CARUS, caress; through Fr. cher, cherish; Charles (Carolus, dim. Carlos, Sp.), Caroline. CASTRUM, (from casa, a hut,) lit. a large hut; a fort; dim. castellum; castle, castellated; Castile, from a castle being the heraldic cognizance of that country; Spenser's Royal Virgin was to "Smite the Great Castle," i.e., break the Castilian power; Bern is named from its cognizance the Bear.

CATENA, a chain (Fr. chaine); concatenate, -ation.

CAUSA, (from Lat. cavere, to take care, to prevent), a reason, a source, a law-suit; cause, causation, causative, causal; comp. accuse, -ation, -ative; excuse. CAVERE, to beware; caution, -tious,

-ary, precaution; cautelous, Shaksp.; incaution; caveat. CAVUS, hollow; cave, cavern, -ous, cavity, excavate, concave. CEDERE, to go, grant, yield; part. cessus; cesso, in a dim. sense, to loiter, to stop; cede, ac-, ante-, con-, inter-, re-, retrocede; ex-, pro-, succeed; nouns generally in -sion; adj. in -sive, -ble, -ory; but also nouns in -cess, abs-, ac-, re-, ex-, pro-, success; precedence; precedent, adj. and n. ; procedure; succedaneum (a substitute for); ancestor, one gone before; cease, decease; surcease, Shaksp.; predecessor.

CELEBRIS, copious, crowded; applied to solemn festival assemblies; hence well-known, renowned; celebrate, -brity.

CELER, Swift; celerity, accelerate. CENSERE, to judge, to tax, to ap

praise; census, the quinquennial examination of the Roman people; censors, the officers who superintended it; censure, censorious; cess.

CENTRUM, (Gr. kentron, a prickle,)

the centre; central, -rical; eccentric; concentrate; centrifugal, centripetal. CENTUM, a hundred; century, a hundred years; a civil and military division among the Romans; centurion; centennial, see Annus; centuple, see Plico; percentage; cent and centime, American and French coins; centipede; centesimal; centigrade; Gr. Centaurs, (lit. bull-goaders,) the Thessalian people, who having domesticated the horse, seem to have received their name from bull-hunting; they are distinguished in Greek mythology as the propagators of early civilisa

tion.

CERA, wax; cerements, wax cloths for the dead. CERNERE, to separate, to sift, to distinguish, to judge, to know; concern; to decern, in Scotch law to decree; decretal; discern, disereet, discretion; discrete, concrete; discriminate; secrete, -tive; secret, secretary. CERTARE, to strive; concert, disconcert. For concert of music, see Canĕre.

CERTUS, (from cretus, past part. of cernere, to see, to know,) certain, ascertain, certify, certificate. CETE, whales; cetaceous, spermaceti.

CHARTA, (from Gr. chartēs, a writ-. ing; Th. charassein, to carve,) paper; chart, charter, card; discard, to throw cards out of the hand as in some games; to throw off a dependent. CHORDA, a cord, (in Greek it is properly "an intestine, or a musical string made of an intestine;") accord, n and v.; accord ance, -ant; discord, -ance, -ant; concord, -ance, -ant; cordilleras, the ridges of the Andes. CINC US, girt; cincture, succinct, precincts. CIRCUS, a circle; the Roman amphitheatre; circulate, encircle;

circular. Gr. kuklos, gives en

cyclopedia; cyclic, cycle; cyclops, cyclopic; cycloid; Gr. gyros, gives gyration, and perhaps is cognate with gird and

year.

CITARE, to summon, to rouse; cite, ex-, in-, recite, -ation, -able; ex-, incitement; recitative; resuscitate; quote (?); some give for quote Lat. inquit, saith; see Quo

tus.

CIVIS, a citizen, civic, civil, -ize, -ian; city. -izen.

CLAM, secretly, clandestine. CLAMARE, to cry; claim, -ant, clamant, clamour, -ous; de-, ex-, pro-, reclaim, (to reassert a right, or to protest,) -ation, -atory, -able.

CLARUS. clear; declare, -ation, -ant, -aratory; clarify; clarion: claret; proper names, Clara, Clarinda, Clarissa, Claribel.

CLASSIS, (from Gr. kalein, to assemble,) a collected number; a civil division of the Romans; a fleet; class, classical, belonging to the highest class in art or literature; classics, often applied specifically to the Greek and Roman writers. CLAUDERE, to shut; clausus, shut, (comp. -cludere, -clusus); close, clause, closure, cloister, (Fr. clôitre,) closet; dis,- en-, or in-, foreclose; con-, ex-, inter-, se-, preclude; -sion, -sive; recluse ; cluster.

CLEMENS, mild; clement, -ncy, inclement.

CLINARE, (Gr. clinē, a bed,) to bend; incline, decline, -nation, declension, recline; clinical. CLIVUS, a slope; ac-, declivity;

cliff.

CODEX, a tree-trunk, a book, from the practice of writing on wooden tablets; code, codicil; consult Liber.

COELUM, heaven, (from Gr. koilos,

hollow,) celestial; cieling, camp

ceiled COLARE, to strain; percolate, -ation. COLLRE, to till; cultus, tilled;

colony, -nize, -nist, -nial; cul

ture, agri-, horti-, floriculture, -ral; cultivate, -ation, -able; coulter; auscultation. COLOR, colour, -able, discolour, discoloration, vari-coloured. COLOSSUS, a gigantic statue, as that of Apollo at Rhodes; colossal, Colosseum or Coliseum. Column is possibly a cognate word. COMES, a companion. See īre, to go. COMMUNIS. See Munus. COMPUTARE, to count. See Putāre, to think.

CONCILIUM, (from con and cieo, to summon,) a council; conciliate, reconcile.

CONDERE, to hide. See Dărc, to give. CONSULERE, (con and salire, to leap,) to deliberate together; consult, consul, the chief Roman magistrate; counsel.

CONTRA, against; contrast ; through

Fr. encounter, rencontre; contraband, from Gothic band, a prohibition; or from ban, a proclamation; contrary; contrarious, Milton.

COPIA, plenty, (from con, -opes pl. wealth;) copious; cornucopiæ ; copy, to multiply writings; n. a resemblance; copyhold, tenure of land by written documents. COQUERE, to boil, to ripen; coctus, boiled; cook, -ery; kitchen; de-, concoct, -tion; through Fr. cuit, part. of cuire, biscuit; from culina, a kitchen, (Fr. cuisine,) culinary, scullion.

COR, the heart; core, cordial, corculum, in botany, (through Fr. coeur-Coeur de Lion, Richard I. of England; courage, encourage ;) kernel.

CORIUM, a cover, leather; Fr. cuir; cuirass; curry, -rier. CORNU, (Gr. keras,) a horn; corn, cornet, cornated, unicorn, rhino

ceros

CORPUS. (Gr. kormos or korpos, a

trunk, a log cut; from keirein, to cut); the body; corps, corpse; in old language corps or corse is applied to the living body; corslet, corset; corporal, real,

-pulent, -porate, -puscle; incorporate.

COSTA, a rib, the side; intercostal,

coast; accost, to address by coming up to the side of

CRAS, to-morrow; procrastinate. CREARE, to make, to beget; create, pro-, recreate, -tion; recreant, miscreant, creature.

CREDERE, to believe; creed, cre

dence, credential, credenda, credible, credit, or; credulous, -lity; discredit.

CREPARE, to crackle; decrepitation, decrepit. (The aged are called decrepid by a metaphor derived from lanthorns or candles, which are said decrepare, to crackle, when they send forth a noise at the moment of going out. Scaliger.)

CRESCERE, to grow; cretum, to grow; crescent, the figure of the waxing moon; accrescent, decrease, decrement, increase, increment, excrescence, concrete, discrete, recruit.

CRETA, (supply terra,) Cretan earth; chalk; cretaceous; Cretins, persons afflicted with a peculiar disease, in Alpine countries, supposed to arise from the chalk elements that mingle with the waters of these regions; to this cause is also ascribed the swelling termed goître.

CRIMEN, (Gr. krinein, to judge,) an accusation; crime, -minal, -minate, recriminate, discriminate, crisis; critic.

CRISTA, a tuft on an animal's head;

the plume of a helmet; crest, a heraldic cognizance; crested, -less; crest-fallen.

CRUSTA, (from Gr. kruos, frost,) a hard covering; crust, encrust, incrustation, crustaceous, crusty. Gr. kruos gives origin to Lat. cruor, cooled blood, gore; to crystal, crystallography, &c. CRUX, a cross; crucify, fixion, -fix;

excruciate, cruciform; crucible, a melting pot, called from being marked with a cross by the al

chemists; crusade; crosier, a bishop's crook or pastoral staff, originally a staff with a cross; crutch, Crutched Friars, the Carmelites, from wearing a cross on their tunic Richard Third's appellation Crookback, Crutchback, is said to have arisen from the same circumstance; crotchet, a peculiar cross or turn of mind, also a musical note; crochet, crossed needle-work; to crouch, (in Chaucer, to sign with the cross) to cruise (?), to sail up and down; encroach. Crun is by some referred to Crux. Cruciferae, an order of plants, whose four petals are arranged like a

cross.

CUBARE, to lie, (comp. cumbĕre ;) cub, incubus; encumber; covey (of partridges); succumb, incumbent, -ency; superincumbent, recumbent; cubitus, the part of the arm on which the ancients reclined at table, a cubit; through Fr. couch, cushion.

CULMEN, a top, (from Culmus, a corn-stalk,) culminate.

CULPA, a fault, culpable, -prit, ex-, inculpate.

CUMULUS, a heap, accumulate; cumulus, cirro-cumulus, cumulostratus, are terms in meteorology descriptive of the forms of clouds. CURA, care, -ful, -less; cure, -ative, -able curate, acy; curator; curious, -osity; procurator, (cont. proctor;) procuracy, (cont. proxy,) procure, ation, -able; secure; through Fr. surety; in-, assure, -rance; accurate, curule. CURRERE, to run; cursus, run; current, -ricle, succour; con-, in-, oc-, recur, -rence, -rent; ex-, in-, cursion, -sive; discourse, intercourse, subcurrent, cursory, precursor; course, recourse, courier; courant, a terin in heraldry; vaunt-courier, Shaksp., Lear. To currere are referred car, career, chariot, but they exist in the northern languages; curragh, the boat of the Highlanders and

ancient Britons is an example; they seem allied to carry, carriage, charge, cargo; to the Fr. carosse, old Eng. caroche, i.e., coach.

CURTUS, (Gr. keirein, to cut,) short; curtail, curt.

CURVUS, crooked; curb, curve, -vili

near; curvature; incurvate. CUTIS, (Gr. kutos, (from kuein, to contain.) anything having capacity, the cavity of a vessel,) the skin; cuticle, cutaneous. Possibly connected with cutis is scutum, a shield covered with skin; Fr. escu, ie., êcu, (It. scudo,) a coin stamped with a shield; a crown; esquire, a shield-bearer.

DAMNARE, to sentence to punishment; damnum, loss; damage, damn, natory; condemn ; indemnity.

DARE, (Gr. didõnai,) to give; dătus, given; comp. děre, ditus; abdĕre, to hide, to put together; abscondere, to put apart, to hide; perdere, to destroy; tradere, to give across, to hand down, to betray; reddere, to give again, to render (Fr); date, datum, antedate, dative; deodand; abdomen; abscond; add, -ition, -endum; condition; edit; recondite; reddition; surrender; perdition; tradition; trade; dole. Fr. pardon, (perdonare); from dos, a gift; dowry, endow or endue ; from donare, to gift with; donor, donee, donative, condonation; through Gr. anec-, antidote. DEBERE, (de-habere, to have frorn,) to owe; debitus, owed; debit, debt, or; due.

DECEM, (Gr. deca,) ten; decimate, decimal, decennial, (see Annus,) decemviri, (see Vir), December; dean, (decanus,) a church officer, originally presiding over ten canons; Decapolis, a district of ten cities; decade; decagon; decalogue, from Lat. duodecim, twelve, Fr. douzaine; dozen. DECENS, becoming; decus, honour