Part 7018

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.</def>

<blockquote>The great <b>metropolis</b> and see of Rome. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Metropolitan</h1> <Xpage=920>

<hw>Met`ro*pol"i*tan</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>metropolitanus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>m\'82tropolitain</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; <as>as, <ex>metropolitan</ex> luxury</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; <as>as, <ex>metropolitan</ex> authority</as>.</def> "Bishops <i>metropolitan</i>."

<i>Sir T. More.</i>

<h1>Metropolitan</h1> <Xpage=920>

<hw>Met`ro*pol"i*tan</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>metropolitanus</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Lat. Church.)</fld> <def>An archbishop.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Gr. Church)</fld> <def>A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.</def>

<i>Hook.</i>

<h1>Metropolitanate</h1> <Xpage=920>

<hw>Met`ro*pol"i*tan*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The see of a metropolitan bishop.</def>

<i>Milman.</i>

<h1>Metropolite</h1> <Xpage=920>

<hw>Me*trop"o*lite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>metropolita</ets>, Gr. <?/.]</ety> <def>A metropolitan.</def>

<i>Barrow.</i>

<h1>Metropolitical</h1> <Xpage=920>

<hw>Met`ro*po*lit"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; <as>as, the <ex>metropolitical</ex> chair</as>.</def>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Metrorrhagia</h1> <Xpage=920>

<hw>Met`ror*rha"gi*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ womb + <?/ to break.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.</def>

<h1>Metroscope</h1> <Xpage=920>

<hw>Met"ro*scope</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ womb + <ets>-scope</ets>.]</ety> <def>A modification of the stethoscope, for directly auscultating the uterus from the vagina.</def>

<h1>Metrosideros</h1> <Xpage=920>

<hw>Met`ro*si*de"ros</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ heart of a tree + <?/ iron.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A myrtaceous genus of trees or shrubs, found in Australia and the South Sea Islands, and having very hard wood. <i>Metrosideros vera</i> is the true ironwood.</def>