homiculture 
Indirectly, then, marriages are frequently made on bases 
which, if not those that the laws of Homiculture would 
lay down, are at least not diametrically opposed to them. 
Nineteenth Century, XXIV. 391. 
homiformt (hom'i-form), a. [< L. homo, man, + 
forma, shape.] Same &s hominiform. Cudicorth. 
homilete (hom'i-let), n. [< 6r. O/U^TJK, a com- 
pauion, scholar, hearer, < o/ufaiv, be in company, 
consort, converse : see homiletic. The E. sense 
is taken from homiletic, after the analogy of exe- 
gete, exegetic.] One who composes or delivers 
homilies or sermons; one versed in the art of 
preaching. [Rare.] 
The pulpit wants above all else enthusiastic homiletes. 
Presbyterian Quarterly, January, 1875, p. 120. 
homiletic (hom-i-let'ik), a. [< Gr. 6/u^r/riKof, 
of conversation, affable, conversable, < buikelv, 
be in company, consort or converse, < o/uhot, 
an assembly, throng : see homily.'] It. Same 
as homiletieal, 1. 2. In the style or of the na- 
ture of a homily or a sermon; hortatory; exposi- 
tory. 
This [the Ormulum] is a metrical paraphrase of a part of 
the New Testament, in a homiletic form, and it probably 
belongs to the early part of the thirteenth century. 
G. P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., v. 
The ecclesiastical literature is all historical, homiletic, 
or devotional. D. X. Wallace, Bussia, p. 433. 
3. Of or pertaining to sermons or to homiletics ; 
pertaining to preaching or the art of preaching. 
Homiletic theology. Same as homiletia. 
homiletieal (hoin-i-let'i-kal), a. [< homiletic + 
-al.~] If. Pertaining to familiar intercourse; 
conversable ; companionable. 
His virtues active chiefly, and homiletieal, not those 
lazy sullen ones of the cloister. 
Sp. Atterbury, Character of Luther. 
2. Same as homiletic, 2. 
The Sermon of Pentecost is made the basis of further 
homiletieal hints. ItiMiothcca Sacra, XLV. 740. 
homiletics (hom-i-let'iks), )(. [PI. of homiletic: 
see -ics. Cf. Gr. op&rrriidi (sc. Ttxvq), the art 
of conversation.] The art of preaching; that 
branch of practical theology which treats of 
the composition and delivery of sermons and 
other religious discourses. 
homiliarium (hom"i-li-a'ri-um),M.; pi. homilia- 
ria (-a). [ML., also homitiarius (sc. liber) and 
homittare, \ homilia, a homily: see homily.'] A 
homiliary for the use of pastors. 
homiliary (hom'i-li-a-ri), n. ; pi. homiliaries 
(-riz). [< ML. homiliarium, homiliarius : see 
homiliarium.'] A book containing a collection 
of homilies or sermons to be read on Sundays 
and other days. 
homilist (hom'i-list), n. [< homily + -ist.~] 
One who composes homilies; one who exhorts. 
Novelists have enforced moral lessons more powerful 
than a wilderness of tiomiliits. 
Quarterly Rev., CLXIII. C4. 
homilisticalt (hom-i-lis'ti-kal), a. [< homilist 
+ -ic-al.'] Pertaining to or characteristic of a 
homilist. 
These were the grand Divines in all Times and Places, 
not superficially armed with light armour, onely for the 
preaching or Homilisticall nourishes of a Pulpit, but with 
the . . . armour of veterane and valiant souldiers. 
Up. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 621. 
homilite (hom'i-lit), n. [Irreg. < Gr. ofufeiv, be 
together (see homily), + -ite 2 .] A borosilicate 
of iron and calcium, occurring in black or brown- 
ish-black monoclinic crystals near Brevig, Nor- 
way. It is closely allied to datolite in form and 
composition. 
homily (hom'i-li), n. ; pi. homilies (-liz). [< 
OF. homelie, F. homelie = Pr. omelia = Sp. ho- 
milia = Pg. homilia = It. omelia, < ML. homilia, 
a homily, sermon, < Gr. 6/uMa, intercourse, in- 
struction, a lecture, eccles. a homily, sermon, < 
buiAof, an assembly, < 0/16;, same, like, 6/tov, to- 
gether, + "Ari, ciArj, a company, < eifaiv, press or 
crowd together.] 1. In early Christian use, a 
colloquial and familiar discourse in exposition 
of Scripture ; in modern use, an expository ser- 
mon, or one which interprets and applies a par- 
ticular passage of Scripture rather than eluci- 
dates a particular doctrine or theme. 
Homilies . . . were a third kind of readings usual in 
former times, a most commendable institution, as well 
then to supply the casual, as now the necessary defect of 
sermons. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 20. 
The hmnily differs from the Aoyos, or discourse, because 
the homily does not, like the oration or discourse, set forth 
and illustrate a single theme. It sacrifices artistic unity 
and simply follows the order of subjects in the passage of 
Scripture to be explained. On the other hand, a homily 
is distinct from mere exegesis or exposition, because the 
latter is addressed to the understanding, while the homi- 
ly is meant to affect the heart also, and to persuade those 
who hear to apply the lessons of Scripture for the refor- 
mation of their lives. Cath. Diet. 
2866 
2. Any expository or hortatory discourse. 
Unspoken homilies of peace 
Her daily life is preaching. 
Whittier, Among the Hills. 
Book Of homilies. () A collection of religious dis- 
courses; a homiliarium. Specifically (b) [cap.] In the 
Ch.ofEng., one of the two series of discourses called "The 
First" and "The Second Book of Homilies," the former of 
which appeared in 1547 and the latter in 1563, appointed 
to be read in the churches when the sermon was omitted. 
=Syn. Exhortation, etc. See sermon. 
homine replegiando (hom'i-ne re-ple-ji-an'do). 
[Abbr. of ML. <le homine replegiando, (a writ) of 
replevying a man : lie, of; replegiando, abl.ger. 
of replegiare, replevy ; L. homine, abl. of homo, 
man: see Homo.'] A common-law writ, super- 
seded in England by the writ of habeas corpus, 
but revived by statute in some of the United 
States, in the interest of liberty, to replevy a 
human being out of the custody of any private 
person ? as chattels distrained may be replevied, 
on giving security. Also called de homine re- 
plegiando. 
homing (ho'ming), n. [Verbal n. of home, v."] 
The act of going home. 
The much discussed question of the homing of the pi- 
geon, or, aa the French call it, orientation, does not seem 
difficult to meet to one who has had much to do with the 
birds. The Century, XXXII. 875. 
homing (ho'ming), p. a. [Ppr. of home, .] 
Coming home ; characterized by an instinctive 
tendency to return home on being released from 
restraint : applied to the lower animals, espe- 
cially to birds, such as carrier-pigeons, that 
have the faculty of returning from great dis- 
tances to the place where they were reared, 
whence their usefulness in conveying written 
messages. 
It is scarcely possible to regard such an instance of what 
has been called the " homing instinct " as a purely physi- 
ological, reflex act, nor to consider the crab a mere autom- 
aton. Stand. Sat. Hut., I., Int, p. xxxv. 
Cattle have extraordinary homing power ; so have horses. 
Nature, XXX. 267. 
hominid (hom'i-nid), n. One of the Hominidce; 
a man. 
Horuinidae (ho-min'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < L. homo 
(homin-), man, + -idai."] Afamily of mammals, 
represented by the single genus Homo, man, 
of the suborder Anthropoidea and order Pri- 
ma tes ; mankind. It is characterized by the complete 
withdrawal of the fore limbs from the office of locomo- 
tion, and consequently the habitually erect attitude ex- 
cept in infancy ; the perfection of the hand as a prehen- 
sile organ, and the specialization of the foot as a locomo- 
tory organ ; the regular curvature of the line of the teeth, 
which are of the same length and in uninterrupted series, 
without diastemata; the nakedness of most of the body ; 
and the large facial angle. These are the principal zoo- 
logical characters by which the Hominidce are distin- 
guished from the Simiidte or anthropoid apes. Physio- 
logically, mankind is peculiar chiefly in the capacity of 
civilization, or ability to create progressive institutions 
(including the formation and use of speech). Psychologi- 
cally, man is separated by a very wide interval from the 
nearest Simiidce. The family is the same as Anthropidce ; 
it is conterminous with its single genus, Homo, with the 
order Biwana, and with the subclass Archencephala. 
hominiform (ho-min'i-form), a. [< L. homo 
(homin-), man, + forma, shape.] Having the 
form of the family Hommidte or genus Homo ; 
anthropoid, in a strict sense ; manlike ; human. 
hominine (hom'i-nin), a. [< L. homo (homin-), 
man, + -t'ne 1 .] Pertaining to the genus Homo, 
or man ; manlike ; hominiform. [Rare.] 
The most distinctively simian, and consequently least 
hominine, characteristic. The American, V. 267. 
hominisection (hom'i-ni-sek'shon), . [< L. 
homo (homin-), man, + sectio(n-),"& cutting: see 
section.'] Dissection of man; human anatomy ; 
anthropotomy. [Rare.] 
If the author is correct in identifying the muscle . . . 
with the myon of that name in homtniteetion. 
Coues, The Auk, V. 105. 
hominivorous (hom-i-niv'o-rus), a. [< L. homo 
(homin-), man, + tiorare, eat, devour.] Man- 
eating; anthropophagous. 
There are man-eaters among the hyaenas, and these homi- 
nivorous animals are greatly dreaded. 
J. G. Wood, Illustrated Nat Hist., p. 224. 
hominy (hom'i-ni), n. [Formerly also written 
homony, hommony, homminey; < Amer. Ind. 
auhuminea, parched corn (Webster's Diet.).] 
Maize hulled and ground or broken more or less 
coarsely and prepared for food by being mixed 
with water and boiled. 
The English beat [the corn] in a morter, and sift the 
flower out of it. The remainder they call homminey. 
Quoted in Trans. Amer. Antiq. Sac., IV. 187. 
He was so ignorant of grain that our entertainer . . . 
made him own that a dish of hominy was the best rice- 
pudding he had ever tasted. 
Smollett, Humphrey Clinker, J. Melford to Sir 
[W. Phillips, June 10. 
homocercy 
Succotash and homony 
Were smoking on the board. 
O. W. Holmen, Centennial Song. 
homish (ho'mish), a. [< home + -is/* 1 .] Per- 
taining to home; resembling or suggesting 
home; homelike. [Colloq.] 
The complexion of Anna's sentiments looked rather 
hmneiih. Ticknor, Prescott, p. 108. 
The very look of it is homeiah. 
The Advame, Dec. 2, 1886. 
homlinesst, homlyt. Middle English forms of 
homeliness, homely. 
hommet.f. An obsolete variant of hum 1 . Chaucer. 
hommock, . Same as hummock. 
hommonyt (hoin'o-ni), . Ah obsolete form of 
hominy. 
Homo (ho'mo), n. [< L. homo (homin-), ace. 
hominem, OL. hemo (ace. hemonem, homonem, pi. 
homonea), man, a human being, a person, body, 
fellow, = AS. guma (guman-), a man, E. goonfi, 
q. v.; usually connected with L. humun, earth, 
the ground, Gr. x a l JLa h on the ground, xSuv, the 
earth, the ground: see humus, human, hunible'3, 
etc., and chameleon, chthonic, autochthon, etc.] 
The typical and single genus of ffominidai; 
mankind ; the human race. It was formally insti- 
tuted by Linnaeus in his "Systema Naturae "in 1758, with 
//. sapiens, man, as its type and leading species; but it 
also then included the chimpanzee, //. troglodytes. Natu- 
ralists now restrict it to II. sa/nenx, it being generally con- 
ceded that mankind constitutes one zoological genus hav- 
ing one species with several geographical races or varieties. 
homo-. [NL., etc., homo-, < Gr. ofio-f, one and 
the same, common, joint, akin to a/fa, together, 
= E. same, q. v.] An element in some com- 
pounds of Greek origin, meaning 'the same': 
opposed to hetero-. 
homobaric ^ho-mo-bar'ik), a. [< Gr. 6/uof, the 
same, + flapos, weight.] Of uniform weight 
or gravity. 
Homoblasteae (hd-mo-blas'te-e), n. pi. [NL., 
< Gr. 6/i6f, the same, + /i^aarof, a bud, germ, + 
-co;.'] A division of monocotyledonous plants, 
proposed by A. de Jussieu, characterized by 
having the radicle facing the hilum. It embraces 
orders with the ovary free, as the Juncax (Juncacece), 
Pontoderiaceae, Liliacex, Melanthacece, etc., and orders 
with the ovary adherent* as the Dioscoreae (DiottcoriacetK\ 
Iridece (Iridacece), Amaryllidece(AmaryUidacece), rome- 
liacecf. Mitnacete, etc. 
homoblastic (ho-mo-blas'tik), a. [< Gr. 6ft6f, 
the same, + [ftMSTof, a bud, germ.] Having the 
same germinal origin ; derived from like cells : 
opposed to heterolilastic. 
This new cartilage is either homoblastic or heteroblastic. 
Dr. H. Curfew, Nature, XXXIX. 150. 
Homobranchia(ho-mo-brang'ki-a),.pZ. [NL., 
< Gr. 6/i<if, the same, -h ftpayxia, gills.] In La- 
treille's classification, an order or higher series 
of crustaceans, containing the decapods : con- 
trasted with Heterobranchia. 
homocarpous (ho-mo-kar'pus), a. [< Gr. 0/161;, 
the same, + xapTrof, fruit.] In bot., having all 
the fruits of one kind. 
homocategoric (ho-mo-kat-e-gor'ik), a. [< Gr. 
ouof, the same, + Karrjyopia, category.] Belong- 
ing to the same category. 
We may next consider whether two organisms com- 
pared are of the same category of individuality are ho- 
mocateyoric. Encyc. Brit., XVL 845. 
homocentric (ho-mo-sen'trik), a. [< homo- + 
Gr. KtvTpav. center.] Concentric, 
homocerc (ho'mo-serk), a. and . 
the tail.] I. 
[< Gr. ofiof, 
a. Same as 
[< homocerc + 
the same, + 
homocercal. 
II. . A homoeereal fish. 
homocercal (ho-mo-ser'kal), a. 
-al.~] In ichth., 
having the cau- 
dal fin sym- 
metrical as to 
its upper and 
under halves : 
opposed to het- 
erocercal. See 
heterocercal, 
diphycercal, hy- 
pural. 
The inferior fin- 
rays are now dis- 
posed in such a 
manner as to give 
the tail an appear- 
ance of symmetry 
with respect to 
the axis of the body, and such fishes have been called ho- 
mocercal. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 21. 
homocercy (ho'mo-ser-si), n. [< homocerc + y.'} 
The state or character of being homocercal; 
equality or symmetry in the tail or caudal fin 
of a fish. 
Homocercal Tail of Striped-bass. 
