a. [ L. augurialis. ] Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher. ] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [ Matt. xxvii. 51, 52 ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. “To give a public burial.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body. --
Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of burials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies. --
Burial place, any place where burials are made. --
Burial service. (a) The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. (b) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment; as, the English burial service. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sepulture; interment; inhumation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. See Century. ] Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican. -- n. A member of a curia, esp. of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L.curialis belonging to the imperial court, fr. curia, LL., also, counselors and retinue of a king. ] 1. Pertaining to a court. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. curialitas courtesy, fr. curialis. ] The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an entrepreneur or entrepreneurship; as, entrepreneurial risks. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. willing to undertake a project requiring initiative and involving risk, for one's own purposes; -- of people. [ PJC ]

prop. n. same as Escorial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Represented by figure or delineation. [ R. ] Craig. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. furialis: cf. OF. furial. ] Furious; raging; tormenting. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Astron.) Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to manures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person having mercurial qualities. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A preparation containing mercury. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mercurialis, fr. Mercurius Mercury: cf. F. mercuriel. ] 1. Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mercurial man
Who fluttered over all things like a fan. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts. [ Obs. ] Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money-making; crafty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mercurial wand of commerce. J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. See Mercury, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Med.) Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Mercurial + -ism. ] (Med.) The syndrome produced by poisoning due to exposure to mercury, it fumes, or its compounds; mercury poisoning. Such exposure may occur in mining or smelting, or in using mercurial compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A physician who uses much mercury, in any of its forms, in his practice. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mercurialized p. pr. & vb. n. Mercurializing ] 1. (Med.) To affect with mercury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Photography) To treat with mercury; to expose to the vapor of mercury. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a mercurial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ micro + mercurialism. Coined by the chemist A. Stock in 1926. See mercurialism. ] (1926) A form of mercury poisoning resulting from long term exposure to low doses of mercury. The syndrome of micromercurialism involves complex symptoms of stress, fatigue, memory loss, fine tremors, muscular and reflex insufficiency and low blood pressure, caused by accumulation of mercury in the system. A condition of hyperthermia is accompanied by a series of functional changes under the effects of mercury. The combined simultaneous effect of toxic action, temperature and galvanic response infers a cycle of disintegration and change. Work With Mercury (1972) As proposed by Stock, the syndrome was considered as the union of pathological changes in human body caused by means of low concentrations (as low as 0.01 mg per cubic meter) of mercury vapor over long exposure times (up to 10 years). [ PJC ]

a. (Anat.) Surrounding nerves or nerve fibers; of or pertaining to the perineurium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., fr. seigneur. See Seignior. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Vested with large powers; independent. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trunk, a practice among many primitive peoples. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]